The patent application for the floppy disk was granted to two IBM engineers on this day in 1972.

3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is pretty ...

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Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy ...

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If you're a member of Gen A, there's a good chance you've never seen anything called a "floppy disk." If you're Gen Z or older, you've almost certainly handled floppies (and you may even be collecting ...

Perhaps the most vital cornerstones of the information age are the abilities to store, send, and receive data. Easily being able to write down a piece of information and convey it to someone on the ...