Disk Pack from a Wang Minicomputer (circa 1988)
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Wang Disk Packs 15 Inches in diameter. About 228 Mb storage
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Disk, CD ROM and DVD Chronology 1956 IBM RAMAC is first computer to use random access disk drives 1971 IBM (Alan Shugart) develops the 8 inch floppy diskette 1976 IBM introduces the 5-1/4 inch floppy diskette 1981 Sony introduces the 3.5 inch diskette 1985 Philips and Sony introduce the CD-ROM 1996 DVD-ROM is introduced |
History of Computing
An Encyclopedia of the People and Machines that Made Computer History
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