Floppy

Floppy Drives and USB Cables

By Kim Gorman

  • First Floppy Disk

    First Floppy Disk
    The Floppy disk was created in 1960 by IMB, Sugart Associates, Memorex, and Burroughs Corporation.
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    Floppy disk History

    The Floppy disk was created in 1960 by IMB, Sugart Associates, Memorex, and Burroughs Corporation.

  • Became Available to the public

  • IMB Announces Diskette 1

    IMB Announces Diskette 1
    IMB announced it as "Type 1 Diskette" however, the public used the term "floppy disk" or "floppy" and it soon was adopted by the compony.

  • 5 1/4-inch FDD introduced

    5 1/4-inch FDD introduced
    Shugart studios creates the first 5 1/4 inch FDD

  • More FDD Manufacturing

  • 1.2 MB dual-side floppy disk

    Made by IMB along with the AT model.

  • 3 1/2 inch microfloppy disk

    Double density 720 mb disk used by IMB

  • 1.44 MB high density

    A 1.44 MB High-Density floppy can be added to older computers.

  • Failure by IMB

    Failure by IMB
    IMB introduces the drive for 2.88 MB DSED diskettes but fails