PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy ... The 720KB 3.5" floppy was introduced on IBM's Convertible laptop. Capacity doubled to 1.44MB with the PS/2 line, and 1.44MB ...

Priced at $4,000, the first ever "laptop" weighed 9 pounds (4 kg) and was powered by a 5 MHz Intel 8088 alongside MS-DOS. Other specifications included 64KB of static CMOS memory, a floppy disk ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

(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 ...

Although mechanically sound, the drive had trouble reading disks, and Adrian quickly set out to fix the issue. Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he ...

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used as ... These features make SSDs particularly ideal for laptop computers. Data can be transferred to ...