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  2. 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 ...

  3. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    Floppy disks remained a popular medium for nearly 40 years, but their use was declining by the mid- to late 1990s. [4] After 2000, floppy disks were increasingly rare and used primarily with older hardware, especially with legacy industrial and musical equipment. [5] Sony manufactured its last new floppy disks in 2011. [6]

  4. Double-sided disk - Wikipedia

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    A commercially-made floppy disk "notcher" In computer science, a double-sided disk is a disk of which both sides are used to store data. Early floppy disks only used one surface for recording. The term single-sided disk was not common until the introduction of the double-sided disk, which offered double the capacity in the same physical size. [1]

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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).

  9. Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of ...

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    Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.