COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Compact Disks
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Magnetic Tape
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Floppy Disks
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RAM
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Detailed explanation-1: -Unlike hard drives, a user could easily transfer a floppy in its protective jacket from one drive to another. It was not until 1973 that IBM released a read/write floppy disk drive. Soon after, it became an industry standard.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 3.5 inch drive first appeared on the market in 1982 and dominated the market by the end of the decade. By the 1990s, the 3.5 inch floppy disk drove the 5.25 inch storage media out of the market, becoming the dominant form of storage media at the time.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first floppy drives used an 8-inch disk (later called a “diskette” as it got smaller), which evolved into the 5.25-inch disk that was used on the first IBM Personal Computer in August 1981. The 5.25-inch disk held 360 kilobytes compared to the 1.44 megabyte capacity of today’s 3.5-inch diskette.