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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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Which company created the floppy disc?
IBM
Why can you use a bootable floppy disc created in Wondows XP to boot a Windows 2000 computer?
I think you can only use a windowsbootable floppy disc for the system in which it was made from.
What is a floppy dics?
what is a floppy disc
Is a floppy disc an input or output device?
A Floppy disc is a input device.
When were floppy drives first invented?
The floppy disc drive was invented at IBM in 1967. It used 8" floppy discs. The first floppy disc drive in an IBM personal computer appeared in 1981. By this time the original 8" floppy disc had been replace by a 5.25" disc.
Which disc holds only 1.44 megabytes?
A floppy disc
Can a computer read info faster from a hard disc than it can a floppy disc?
Yes, it takes longer to load from a floppy disk.
How do you clear a floppy disc?
you can format
Is a floppy disc a file?
Yes.
What portable diskette holds 1.4MB of data?
Although they're not used any more - that would be a floppy-disc
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
You have floppy disks can you rewrite or recopy on them?
Given that you have a floppy disc drive then yes you can.
