IBM offered an extra-high density 2.88MB drive on selected PCs that was backward compatible, but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS ...

[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer ... like a 1995 IBM Aptiva. While the whole build is impressive, the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that ...

It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on ... become a symbol of data storage, and the floppy disk icon still appears on many computer desktops as the file-saving symbol.

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is ... selective about what kind of disks it will read. If you’re only worried about bog standard IBM-formatted disks they can work ...

See Zip disk and Floptical. (2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk developed by IBM and available on certain IBM PCs. With a 2.88MB capacity, the Extra High Density (ED) floppy drives were compatible ...

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 ...

Since Floppy Disk was the first hard drive to store the data and run the computer programs, it was named with the letter A and was introduced by IBM. The Floppy Disk had only 1.44 MB storage capacity.