8-inch disks came with a storage capacity of around ... Further, it was adopted by everyone making computers. The Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh, and IBM PC all shipped with floppy drives.

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. 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 ...

The IBM 350 Disk File weighed about one ton ... brought the idea of a separate disk controller inside the computer system to the storage industry. By moving the controller from the disk drive ...

While laughable by today's storage standards, at the time, it was a considerable improvement that moved users away from the cumbersome use of floppy disks. The IBM ... role of computers in both ...

Production ended in 1961 as the RAMAC computer became obsolete the following year upon the arrival of IBM's 1405 Disk Storage Unit for the IBM 1401. By 1981, Apple introduced its first hard drive ...