Life Before Touchscreen Phones for Ladies

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Ah, old PC days


Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die | WIRED
A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppy disks. But the supply is finally running out.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-the-floppy-disk-just-wont-die/


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In 1971, IBM introduced the 8-inch floppy disk, initial capacity was about 100K bytes (100,000 characters)


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In 1976, Shugart introduced the 5 1/4-inch floppy disk. Initial capacity was about 100K, eventually reaching 1.2M bytes per disk.


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In 1980, Sony introduced the 3 1/2-inch floppy disk. Initially holding about 400K, current capacity is 1.4Meg per disk.

In 1984, the Apple Macintosh had an internal 3 1/2-inch floppy drive capable of storing 400K of data.
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