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The PC was widely fitted with either 5.25″ or 3.5″ disk drives, but other formats such as the older 8″ discs were not a fixture in the 16-bit desktop computing world. It’s something [Jozef ...

They were made from a thin piece of magnetized material encased in a protective plastic envelope, with a central hole for the drive's spindle. The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by ...

Three generations of RAMAC drives were developed, with capacity doubling in each generation. The IBM 305 RAMAC comprised 50 24-inch disk platters housed in a large, boxy cabinet, which resembled ...