The disks are also "pretty expensive" to buy, said Thomas Walskaar of Floppy Totaal. So how to explain their enduring popularity? Perhaps floppy disks are "perfect reminders of how violently ...
Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches ... up to 200 MB of storage capacity. Another popular "superdisk" alternative was the Iomega Zip drive ...
A single disk or thousands of cards? Yeah, that's what we all thought, too. As personal computers gained popularity in the 1970s, the floppy disk moved from my world of mainframes and workstations ...