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  2. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    Drawings from IBM Floppy Disk Drive Patents. IBM's decision in the late 1960s to use semiconductor memory as the writeable control store for future systems and control units created a requirement for an inexpensive and reliable read only device and associated medium to store and ship the control store's microprogram and at system power on to load the microprogram into the control store.

  3. Yoshiro Nakamatsu - Wikipedia

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    However, what Nakamatsu patented in 1952 was a paper for optical sound player. [12] In contrast to a floppy disk, this Nakamatsu patent discloses the use of printed paper for storage instead of the magnetic material of a floppy disk. It is not rewritable and lacks most elements of the IBM floppy disk patent.

  4. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...

  5. Floppy disks obsolete, headed for the recycle bin

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    You can officially move your old computer floppy disks to your obsolete file, since Sony has announced plans to discontinue selling them in Japan in March 2011, according to The Consumerist. The ...

  6. Olivetti P6060 - Wikipedia

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    The Olivetti P6060 was the first personal computer with a built-in floppy disk. It was presented in April 1975 by the Italian manufacturer Olivetti at the Hannover fair alongside the smaller P6040 that stored data on proprietary 2.5-inch mylar floppies called Minidisk (3 KB).

  7. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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    However, by the late 1980s, hard disk drives were standard on all but the cheapest PC and floppy disks were used almost solely as transport media. Most hard disk drives in the early 1980s were sold to PC end users by systems integrators such as the Corvus Disk System or the systems manufacturer such as the Apple ProFile.

  8. From floppy disks to AI: Meet the man who brought Richland ...

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    “We were setting up Office 95 installed off floppy disks, 3-1/4-inch box of 50 diskettes,” he said. “We had to basically load all the software manually.” Director of information technology

  9. Remember floppy disks? This supplier says business is booming

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    There are a lot of people in the tool and die business who use floppy disks.""Most people don't know that about a third to a half of all of the aircraft flying today were built 20 years ago.