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 ...

By early 1971, IBM shipped its first computer with a read-only drive for the 8-inch floppy disk causing other companies like Memorex and Shugart to take notice. In 1972, Memorex had released their ...

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 ...

This allowed the IBM PC-XT to boot up the PC-DOS 2.0 operating system from the hard drive, rather than rely on using a floppy disk. The PC did come with a 5.25-inch floppy disk drive as well.

[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer and case made to look like a 1995 IBM ... 2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular USB flash drive ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Dell Computer Co. said it will discontinue floppy disk drives as standard equipment ... in 1976 to be compatible with IBM mainframe computers.

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 ...