IBM Corp. employees knew the company’s computer disk drives had a higher failure rate ... claims that it sold computers with defective floppy disk controllers. In 2001, Iomega Corp. reached ...

This all brings us to 1980 when IBM ... for the computer, including usually containing the operating system. Despite that exceptionally few systems today still contain floppy disk drives, this ...

The Osborne Computer Corporation declares ... two 5¼-inch floppy disk drives, and cost $1,795. September 14, 1956 IBM announces the 305 and 650 RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting) “data ...

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 computer ...

Data storage mechanisms have come a long way since IBM proudly ... ubiquitous 3.5-in. floppy disk and drive in 1981. But the death knell is tolling for the floppy. Major computer manufacturers ...

IBM today announced that it is using just ... The company is first to mass-produce computer hard disk drives using a revolutionary new type of magnetic coating that is eventually expected to ...

The 3.5in floppy disk, once an icon of the computer ... floppy drives from its best-selling Dell Dimension range. The first floppy disk - which was 8in - was developed by IBM in the late 1960s ...