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The digital compact disc, now commonplace in stereos and computers, was invented in the late 1960s by James T. Russell. The first floppy was made by IBM around 1970 (this was an 8" floppy). The 5 1/4" floppy was introduced in 1976 and Sony pioneered the 3 1/2 floppy with a hard shell in 1981.
It is True cause ibm OWNES Actually, it was Invented by Yoshiro Nakamatsu in the 1970's but he licensed the patents to Sony so gets no credit for inventing the basic technology.
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What do you use floppy disk drives for?
For putting a floppy disc in. Floppy discs were used a lot in the 1970's as CD's were not invented until the 1980's
Copy old floppy discs to cd?
to do this you must first save what ever is on the floppy disc onto your computer or laptop and then transfer the file from the floppy on to an empty CD disc and then it is done
What year was the first 3.5 floppy disk invented?
it was introduced because it was a simple and easy memory storage and then they introduced Cd's which killed the floppy discs
What is a portable storage medium?
Cd,DVD Floppy disk etc
A CD holds how much more than a floppy disk?
A cD holds 600 times more than a floppy disc.
Which country invented the floppy disk?
The computer floppy disk was invented in the United States.
Rank these storage methods in order of their storage capacity DVD floppy disk CD tape?
Tape, DVD, CD, Floppy Disk
How did you assemble CD-ROM and floppy?
china
What allan shugart invented?
THE FLOPPY DRIVE THE FLOPPY DRIVE
What to use to clean a CD lens?
floppy disk.
What is the command to change to the floppy drive in MS-DOS?
Floppy drives are identified by drive letters A and B. To change between them, simply enter CD A: or CD B:
Can CD-r drive be used as a floppy drive?
Data can be copied to CDs (Compact Discs) which are writable/rewritable and need a CD/DVD burner to write data. The difference between a floppy and CD is that floppy is a magnetics media and CD an optical media (read/write happens with help of a laser light). - Neeraj Sharma
