8” Eight Inch Basf Huge Floppy Disk From 1984 Rare
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:8410184 | MPN: Does Not Apply |
| Brand: BASF | Country/Region of Manufacture: Ireland |
| Type: 8-in. Floppy Disk | UPC: Does Not Apply |
8” Eight Inch Basf Huge floppy disk From 1984 Rare Tested Working
This listing is for 1 disk (8")
The 8 inch floppy was created in 1967 by IBM as a way to provide software updates for its System/370 mainframes. The first “memory disk, ” as it was called, held 80 kilobytes of data. IBM introduced the floppy commercially in 1971, and by 1976 new floppies were double-sided disks that could hold 1-1.2megabytes. But they had been pretty much overtaken by 5½-inch di...sks by the time the PC revolution got going in the early 1980s. Since then, portable storage has steadily gotten smaller, faster and more capacious as the 8-inch floppy faded into history.But not altogether, as their presence at the ICBM bases shows. In fact, pockets of government, with its duty to keep and manage all kinds of records, still work with the floppys, if not of the 8-inch variety. The Federal Register still accepts 3.1/4 floppys along with CD-ROMs (though not flash drives or SD cards), and the Library of Congress still uses them to construct details of history in the computer era.
