Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or magnetic storage, their expertise in making small grains of material stick in an organized fashion on a wide range of materials came in handy.

IBM created the floppy drive as a means of read-only magnetic storage in 1972. Floppy disks originally came in a size of 203.2mm, which is close enough to 8 inches for that to be the moniker used.

No fridge is big enough ever, to cater to our needs. Space in refrigerator is filled up even at the blink of our eye. And ...

The warehouse also holds 8-inch floppy disks — an even older storage medium — including one labeled as containing the 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon US presidential debate.

Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine in the UK, I used to hand my ...

Way back in ancient times, i.e. the '70s and '80s, the floppy disk was a major player in the world of digital storage. And you might be surprised to learn just how prominent the format still is in ...

For example, at Iron Mountain, a major media archival server site, nearly 20% of the SSDs they've been storage in their ...

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LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct 20 (Reuters) - It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still ...

Japan began moving away from the 20th-century storage devices, magnetic disks encased in plastic, just two years ago, when Taro Kono, the country’s digital minister, declared a “war on floppy ...

IBM created the floppy drive as a means of read-only magnetic storage in 1972. Floppy disks originally came in a size of 203.2mm, which is close enough to 8 inches for that to be the moniker used.

IBM created the floppy drive as a means of read-only magnetic storage in 1972. Floppy disks originally came in a size of 203.2mm, which is close enough to 8 inches for that to be the moniker used.