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When was the first floppy disc?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The first floppy disc was a 8-inch- IBM 23FD which was a read only was first introduced in 1971 its storage capacity was 79.7KB. Floppy disks were mostly referred to with imperial measurements,

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