The Floppy Disk Is Introduced for Storing Data Used by Computers
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Scientists, Inventors, Computers, Computer Science
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: California
- Date: 1970
Article abstract: Engineers at IBM Corporation’s San Jose laboratory developed the disk drive, an inexpensive means of storing data in computer applications.
Summary of Event
When the IBM Corporation decided to concentrate on the development of computers for business use in the 1950’s, it faced a problem that had troubled the earliest computer designers: how to store data reliably and inexpensively both during immediate processing and for later use. In the early days of electro-mechanical computation (the early 1940’s), the English inventor Andrew...
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