Floppy disks.
The floppy disk, introduced yet again by IBM was first seen along with its floppy disk drive in 1971.
Although mainframe computers back then already had hard drives and magnetic tape storage media, there
was a need for a simple and cheaper means of saving and passing on software and instructions to the
mainframes previously done, using the much slower punch cards.
At the core of the floppy disk was a small magnetic disk, which, although far more portable than magnetic
tape storage and hard disk drives at the time, stored much less data than other media we've mentioned.
Evolution of the floppy disk size eight inch.
Year introduced 1971.
Maximum capacity 80kB.
CP.
Size 5.25in here introduced 1976 maximum capacity 360kB size 3.5in year introduced 1984 Maximum capacity
1.2MB MP.