Floppy disk timeline.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 12, 2003 ;     310 words ...1971 _ IBM develops the first floppy disk, code-named `the Minnow, at its Cottle...Associates introduces the first 5.25-inch floppy disk. The smaller size was deemed a better...1981 _ Sony introduces the 3.5-inch floppy disk that was smaller than the industry standard...

Whither floppy disk? (slowdown in floppy disk production)(Bits And Bytes)

Tape-Disc Business;  January 1, 1998 ;     685 words ......expressly intended to replace the 3.5-inch floppy disk (FD), while in the optical arena, newer...for CD-ROM, having moved well beyond floppy disk. Implicit in all the reports is the...Kao Infosystems will still provide floppy disk duplication at its Plymouth plant, as...

120MB FLOPPY DISK BEING PUT INTO CHINESE MARKET

AsiaInfo Services;  August 7, 1997 ;     155 words ...AsiaInfo Services 08-07-1997 120MB Floppy Disk Being Put into Chinese Market CHINA...American Imation has just put its new floppy disk products into Chinese market, those...83 times as much as the common 1.44MB floppy disk, and meanwhile, the supporting driver...

Demise of the disk; Storage limitations prompt the downfall of the...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 4, 2003 ;     552 words ......acquaintances and former users remembered the floppy disk as a workhorse made redundant by outpacing...Garfield and Sinno agreed the death of the floppy disk comes as no surprise. Five years ago...data on floppy disks. In essence, the floppy disk drive reads and writes data to a ...

The floppy disk isn't dead _ technically.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 12, 2003 ;     536 words ......with a couple of friends the other day over the floppy disk _ yes, that floppy disk. They were outraged that the floppy drive is...Or is it just some crazy Internet rumor? The floppy disk can't be dead, they said, with disbelief if...

The floppy disk isn't dead _ technically.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  February 11, 2003 ;     536 words ......with a couple of friends the other day over the floppy disk _ yes, that floppy disk. They were outraged that the floppy drive is...Or is it just some crazy Internet rumor? The floppy disk can't be dead, they said, with disbelief if...

e-business: After 30 years Dell sounds the death knell for the floppy...

The Birmingham Post (England);  April 8, 2003 ;     466 words ......Chris Tomlinson The once ubiquitous floppy disk is soon to be ejecting permanently from...longer a role to play for the humble 3.5' floppy disk drive in its high-end PCs. And, lesser...for the much loved magnetic media. The floppy disk has travelled a long way since its first...

Japanese Inventor Develops Floppy Disk Control Circuit

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 21, 2007 ;     302 words ......of Kyoto, Japan, has developed a floppy disk control circuit that controls a spindle...drives a spindle motor to rotate a floppy disk. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floppy disk control circuit enables a floppy...

Goodbye floppy disk

New Straits Times;  April 17, 2006 ;     400 words ......New Straits Times 04-17-2006 Goodbye floppy disk Byline: Subashini Selvaratnam Edition...Notebook WHEN was the last time you used a floppy disk at work? You'd probably say you can...or maybe never. In recent years, the floppy disk has gone through many changes, from...

Technology Watchers Debate Future of Floppy Disk.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 18--The floppy disk is dead; long live the floppy disk. Apple Computer's hot new iMacs, which went on sale Saturday, don't include a floppy disk drive. Unified Research Laboratories, a Hampton firm...

LAST WEEK, MACINTOSH'S NEWEST COMPUTER WAS UNVEILED WITHOUT A FLOPPY DISK...

The Virginian Pilot;  August 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Byline: LON WAGNER, STAFF WRITER The floppy disk is dead; long live the floppy disk. Apple Computer's hot new iMacs, which went on sale Saturday, don't include a floppy disk drive. Unified Research Laboratories, a Hampton firm that develops software...

Don't bother to shed a tear for the floppy disk

Press of Atlantic City;  February 6, 2007 ;     253 words ......doesn't make sense any more." A 3.5-inch floppy disk can store 1.44 megabytes of data; a...Inc.'s Macintosh line, no longer have floppy disk drives. Thompson said he believed some...history. "The sound of a computer's floppy disk drive will be as closely associated...

KONICA FLOPPY DISK SEMINAR HELD

AsiaInfo Services;  May 22, 1997 ;     75 words ...AsiaInfo Services 05-22-1997 Konica Floppy Disk Seminar Held CHINA, May 22, AsiaInfo...Distributors hold that since Konica's floppy disk is reliable anti-mold, anti-static electricity...enjoy a bright future in the competitive floppy disk market. 05/22/97: AsiaInfo China Daily...

The future of software/data storage in PCs. (includes related articles)...

Tape-Disc Business;  June 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ...The floppy disk is dead, long...will replace the floppy disk as the principal...technology. The floppy disk has endured because...Well then, if floppy disk storage is so great, why...sold in multiple floppy disk sets or on tape...SUPERFLOPPIES Can ...

Sony's camera with a difference. (Sony Electronics Digital Mavica records...

HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network;  June 16, 1997 ;     239 words ......digital camera that uses a common 3.5-inch floppy disk as the storage medium. Other digital...charge-coupled device). Sony chose the floppy disk, in part, because it is so ubiquitous...comfortable with the format. Using the floppy disk and the industry standard JPEG compression...