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Invente
The floppy disk drive (FDD) (8-inch disk(as it got smaller it was later called a "diskette")) was invented by Alan Shugart at IBM
(340/360KB-1.2MB) -
Personal use
the 8-inch started to showing up for personal use -
Available now on...
the Apple II could come with 5.25 floppy disk drives which was added for a "smaller,cheaper, and better portable data storage" -
Level-Up (8 -> 5.25)
8-inch upgraded to a 5.25-inch
(1-2 160 K(kilobytes)) -
3.5 (Winner)
The 3.5-inch by Sony proved to be the winner
(720 K) -
Period: to
The 80s
Floppy disk became the preferred portable storage format with tape as a business back-up -
3.5 (Released)
wasn't released 'til 1982 -
Doubled sided
introduced, they could hold 360 K -
Period: to
Mid-1990s
5.25-inch disk fell out of popularity due to easy corruption from fingerprints from an open access area -
