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Alan Shugart
It was invented by a team of IBM researchers led by Alan Shugart. The chief designer of Shugart's team was David Noble. The first floppy disks became available in 1971.
it was introduced in 1971
Did you mean to spell Floppy disk? The floppy disk was invented by a team of IBM researchers led by Alan Shugart. The chief designer of Shugart's team was David Noble. The first floppy disks became available in 1971.
If you mean Alan Shugart, then it was the floppy disk. An 8 inch inexpensive disk with a capacity of 80,000 bytes used for loading System/370 microcode.A few years later Alan left IBM to start his own floppy company, making many improvements both increasing storage capacity and reducing size.
Ralph Shugart was born on May 31, 1901, in Minonk, Illinois, USA.
it was introduced because it was a simple and easy memory storage and then they introduced Cd's which killed the floppy discs
Nobody discovered the floppy disk. Alan Field Shugart working at IBM on the System/370 project invented them in 1970 as a means of storing microcode for loading into writable control store during µIPL (microcode initial program load). Shugart's original floppy, as used on the System/370, was an 8 inch single sided disk with a capacity of 80,000 bytes. The System/370 treated them as read only disks. They were not intended to have a long usage life as they would only be in the drive for a few minutes a day for µIPL and then be returned to the storage sleeve.
IBM, it was designed to boot load microcode (µIPL in IBM terminology) for their System/370 computers introduced in 1971. The original floppy discs used by IBM were 8 inch diameter and had a capacity of only 80,000 bytes. The IBM engineer that designed the disc drive that the System/370 used to read microcode from these discs was Alan Shugart. He eventually left IBM to start his own disc drive company.
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