Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a medium for loading microcode into the System ...

That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 ... new storage formats like USB flash drives and memory cards emerged, the floppy disk's reign waned in the mid-to-late 1990s.

Ahh, floppy disks. Few things carry nostalgia quite like a floppy — either 3 1⁄2 or 5 1⁄4, depending on which generation of hacker you happen to be. (And yes, we hear you grey-beards ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated ... as technological advances like memory sticks and CDs, and later cloud storage, could store a far larger ...

(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 ...

Floppy disks were developed in the ... More than 20,000 typical disks would be needed to replicate an average memory stick storing 32GB of information. But the legacy of the square-shaped device ...