Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured ... known standard by the late 80s. Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then when our other portable storage choices were IBM 12-row/80 ... a floppy drive to his next computer. His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk ...

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and ... he calls the “USB of the 80s.” Historically, Shugart — a maker of disks — was tired of producing custom drive electronics for each device ...