Floppy disk
Disquete
- Date
- 1971 · confidence high
- Place
- IBM, San Jose, California, United States
- Credited to
- David Noble and Alan Shugart (IBM); Shugart Associates' 5.25-inch version (1976)
- People
- 👤 Alan Shugart1930–2006👤 David Noble1965–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Flexible, removable magnetic disk in a sleeve, cheap and portable. It was the medium for software distribution and file exchange for two decades.
What it led to
- The boxed commercial software industry (Microsoft, Lotus)
- Computer piracy and the first viruses
- The save icon that persists in interfaces
Built on
Made possible
- Apple II personal computer1977
- MS-DOS
- computer viruses