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  2. A 1990s relic, floppy disks get second life at California ...

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    It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

  3. Dysan - Wikipedia

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    Dysan 3.5" floppy disk Dysan Corporation was an American storage media manufacturing corporation, formed in 1973 in San Jose, California , by CEO and former president C. Norman Dion. It was instrumental in the development of the 5.25" floppy disk , which appeared in 1976.

  4. Micropolis Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Micropolis boot diskette, as used with the Micropolis dual 5.25-inch drive to boot an IMSAI 8080.. Micropolis's first advance was to take the existing 48 tpi (tracks per inch) standard created by Shugart Associates, and double both the track density and track recording density to get four times the total storage on a 5.25-inch floppy in the "MetaFloppy" series with quad density (Drives :1054 ...

  5. California State Lottery - Wikipedia

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    Make Me a Millionaire, the California Lottery's second TV game show, debuted on January 17, 2009, for an initial four-year run with host Mark L. Walberg and co-presenter Liz Hernandez. [39] On May 4, 2010, the California Lottery announced the show's cancellation due to poor ratings, with the last program telecast on July 3, 2010.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Shugart Associates - Wikipedia

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    Shugart Associates (later Shugart Corporation) was a computer peripheral manufacturer that dominated the floppy disk drive market in the late 1970s and is famous for introducing the 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch "Minifloppy" floppy disk drive. In 1979 it was one of the first companies to introduce a hard disk drive form factor compatible with a floppy disk ...

  9. California store owners who sold Mega Millions $1.22B jackpot ...

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    The owners of the California gas station who sold the fifth largest Mega Millions ticket in history on Friday were elated to learn their store had played a small part in the $1.22 billion jackpot ...