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 ;   Williams, Louise Moore;   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...

Down, But Not Out.(Floppy disks)(Brief Article)

Tape-Disc Business;  June 1, 2000 ;   O'Reilly, Joe;   787 words ......growth of writable CD and DVD media, the floppy disk market has more than held its own. Efficient...profitable diskette operations. Admittedly, floppy disk sales are on the decline, to the tune...to maximize the selling potential of floppy disk media. Many government agencies and...

Sony Introduces Next Generation of Top-Selling Digital Mavica Products

PR Newswire;  June 3, 1998 ;     787 words ......still cameras and two MaviCap(TM) floppy disk recorders. All of the new models...pictures on the standard 3.5-inch floppy disk. Introduced in August 1997, Digital...in the camera's success. The floppy disk is the easiest way in and out...

PC World to end floppy disk storage sales.(Brief article)

Telecomworldwire;  February 1, 2007 ;     197 words ...TELECOMWORLDWIRE-1 February 2007-PC World to end floppy disk storage sales(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...revealed that it will no longer sell floppy disk storage devices once its current stock...laptops it sells at present include a floppy disk drive and confirmed these will be ...

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

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 4, 2003 ;   ERIK HOGSTROM;   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 ...

Floppy disks may soon be history

The Hindustan Times;  January 30, 2007 ;     425 words ......Hindustan Times London, Jan 30 -- The floppy disk, which revolutionized home computing...generation of technology, which have made the floppy disk obsolete. Data from the Recording Media...a part of technological history, the floppy disk have failed to earn the affection of...

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

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 12, 2003 ;   Diaz, Sam;   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...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Technobuddy Column.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 23, 2003 ;     787 words ......Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 23--The floppy disk is headed for the basement of technology...some reason the impending death of the floppy disk caught me by surprise. It started with...manufacturer, saying it wouldn't include a floppy disk drive on high-end models. Dell said...

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 ;   Subashini Selvaratnam;   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...

A little bit of computing history flops into the past

The Scotsman;  January 30, 2007 ;   ALASTAIR JAMIESON CONSUMER AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT;   627 words ......best-selling 12in single of all time. But the floppy disk, which heralded a new information age...data. Such was the iconic status of the floppy disk in the 1980s that Factory Records artist...World, said: "The sound of a computer's floppy disk drive will be as closely associated...