A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

as it became obsolete following the introduction of IBM's 1405 Disk Storage Unit for the IBM 1401 computer. Over the next two decades, hard drive technology continued to evolve, becoming smaller ...

It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes ... design has become a symbol of data storage, and the floppy disk icon still appears on many computer desktops as the file-saving ...

As the RAMAC computer's memory ... reaching their limits and taking up more and more storage space. An IBM 350 disk storage unit is unloaded from a DC-7 aircraft at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam ...

As ORNL prepares for the Discovery system—a computer ... The Alpine storage system held 250 petabytes of capacity inside 32,494 10TB NL-SAS drives. Made up of 77 IBM Elastic Storage Server ...