In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs ... from years of constant writing by different drives, this may sometimes fix a disk. In this case one of the bad disks was fixed, while ...

IBM offered an extra-high density 2.88MB drive on selected PCs that was backward compatible, but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS ...

I, like many others who remember the days of 3.5-inch floppy disk drives, like to think I invented the concept of a backup by having two floppy disks with the same files on. With the advent of ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...