featuring the IBM Model 350 disk storage unit (US Patent 3,503,060). This groundbreaking drive offered 5MB of storage at $10,000 per MB. At the time, customers would pay over $3,200 per month to ...

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 ...

8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data. Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then when our other portable storage choices were IBM 12-row/80-column punched cards or 9 ...

The Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh, and IBM PC all shipped with floppy drives. Despite my love of the old and crusty storage media of yesteryear, the floppy disk wasn’t long for this earth.