Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

A standard 3.5-inch disk would hold 1.44 megabytes — not even enough space to store a single photo captured by current-gen smartphones. Don't let its small size fool you. Floppy disks still have ...