Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

An early magnetic card storage device from IBM. Used from the mid-1960s until the mid-1970s, the Data Cell was designed by Alan Shugart, who later engineered the hard disk and floppy disk.

Co-founded by hard drive pioneer Alan Shugart and partners, Seagate Technology was originally incorporated as Shugart Technology in November 1978 and began operations the following year ...

The nickname "floppy" came from its flexibility. The 'floppy' was invented by IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart. In 1971, IBM introduced the first 'memory disk' or the 'floppy disk'. The first ...