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"Two years later, IBM introduced the 3½-inch floppy disk that featured 1.44 megabytes of storage space and a plastic case surrounding the internal disk, a forma
by guenthert 2y ago
"Two years later, IBM introduced the 3½-inch floppy disk that featured 1.44 megabytes of storage space and a plastic case surrounding the internal disk, a format that became the mainstay of computing in the 1990s. The 3½-inch disks were more compact and had higher storage capacity, and the rigid case provided better protection."
The article makes it sound that way, but it was Sony who introduced 3.5" drives (IBM, later, increased the density).
The whole article is rather IBM and Floppy biased, going as far as implying that Floppys enabled the Software Industry. Why the propaganda for a dead medium?