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  2. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    White 5¼-inch floppy disk. Floppy disks were supported on IBM's PC DOS and Microsoft's MS-DOS from their beginning on the original IBM PC. With version 1.0 of PC DOS (1981), only single-sided 160 KB floppies were supported. Version 1.1 the next year saw support expand to double-sided 320 KB disks. Finally, in 1983, DOS 2.0 supported 9 sectors ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Yoshiro Nakamatsu - Wikipedia

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    Upon the basis of the Juusyoku Record patent issued in 1952, Nakamatsu claims to have invented the first floppy disk [3] well before IBM's floppy disk patent was filed in 1969. [26] However, what Nakamatsu patented in 1952 was a paper for optical sound player. [ 12 ]

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

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    And if you built a plane 20 or 30 or even 40 years ago, you would use a floppy disk to get information in and out of some of the avionics of that airplane."Persky sells about 500 disks a daybut ...

  6. Floppy disk variants - Wikipedia

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    A Maxell-branded 3-inch Compact Floppy Disk. The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. [1] Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats used in IBM PC compatible systems, or the 8-inch format that preceded them, many proprietary floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout and ...

  7. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    Common floppy disk formats, logical characteristics by platform Platform Size Density Sides ... 50 8 3,500 b: hard 1.4 Mb [15] 375 FM Memorex 651 single 64 32 1.056 b:

  8. Verbatim (brand) - Wikipedia

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    A pair of 5.25" floppy disks from 1978. In 1969, the first digital-grade tape cassettes were released. [citation needed] 8" diskettes were first released in 1974. In 1991, Verbatim released the world's first 3.5" magneto-optical disk. Verbatim started its successful foray into the optical disc market in 1993 with CD-R media.

  9. Nearly 50 years ago two sisters went for pizza and vanished ...

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    One spring day, Katherine, 10, and Sheila Lyon, 12, vanished without a trace. With their bodies not found after 50 years, this week, police and the FBI search returned to the land linked with ...