3½ Inch Format
dad
April 20, 2012
Sony introduced their own small-format 90.0 mm × 94.0 mm disk, similar to the others but somewhat simpler in construction than the AmDisk...
Showing posts with label History of the floppy disk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History of the floppy disk. Show all posts
Friday, April 20, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Mitsumi's "Quick Disk" 3-inch floppies
dad
April 03, 2012
Another 3-inch format was Mitsumi's Quick Disk format. The Quick Disk format is referred to in various size references: 2.8-inch, 3-i...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The 3-inch compact floppy disk
dad
March 20, 2012
Throughout the early 1980s the limitations of the 5¼-inch format were starting to become clear. Originally designed to be smaller and mo...
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The "Twiggy" disk
dad
March 08, 2012
In the early '80s, Apple fell victim to a serious case of NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here), and decided to manufacture their own di...
Thursday, March 1, 2012
The 5¼-inch mini floppy
dad
March 01, 2012
In a 1976 meeting, An Wang of Wang Laboratories informed Shugart Associates' Jim Adkinson and Don Massaro, that the 8-inch format was...
Thursday, January 5, 2012
The 8-inch disk
dad
January 05, 2012
In 1967, IBM gave their San Jose, California storage development center a task to develop a reliable and inexpensive system for loading m...
