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Floppy disks.

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The floppy disk, introduced yet again by IBM was first seen along with its floppy disk drive in 1971.

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Although mainframe computers back then already had hard drives and magnetic tape storage media, there

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was a need for a simple and cheaper means of saving and passing on software and instructions to the

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mainframes previously done, using the much slower punch cards.

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At the core of the floppy disk was a small magnetic disk, which, although far more portable than magnetic

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tape storage and hard disk drives at the time, stored much less data than other media we've mentioned.

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Evolution of the floppy disk size eight inch.

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Year introduced 1971.

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Maximum capacity 80kB.

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CP.

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Size 5.25in here introduced 1976 maximum capacity 360kB size 3.5in year introduced 1984 Maximum capacity

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1.2MB MP.