My business, which used to be 90% CD and DVD duplication, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. It’s shocking to me. — Tom Persky In the course of writing a book all about yours-truly’s ...

But the advent of CD-ROM, USB drives and improved hard disk capabilities marked the beginning of the end for floppy disks. The last major manufacturer of floppy disks was Sony, which stopped ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches ... CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable ...

a USB thumb drive will do. It wasn’t always this way, and it was much more confusing; back in the day when we had floppy drives. We had floptical drives. A single unlabeled 3.5″ floppy disk ...

(2) A device that spins, reads and writes a removable storage medium such as a CD, DVD or floppy disk. In the past, hard disks were also available as removable media (see removable disk).