Wednesday 13 October 2010

70's Technology

Floppy Disks were Invented by IBM and they became commercially available in 1971.

3 main sizes have been used. The first was 8 inches, the second was 5 1/4 inches and the last one ended up being 3 1/2 inches.

The sizes got smaller as technology improved and more data could be stored on smaller mediums.

As a data storage medium it has been superseded by USB memory sticks.

However, it still lives on as the ‘save’ symbol in most programs.



It was really boring.

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