Floppy Disk Drives were originally designed by __________.
Floppy Disk Drives were originally designed by Sony.
From the Manufacturer. Sony's MPF88E/UA/181 external 2X USB 2.0 floppy disk drive is ideal for computer notebooks or workstations without built in floppy disk drives. Its thin, lightweight design makes it easy to carry.
Alan Shugart left IBM and moved to Memorex where his team shipped the Memorex 650 in 1972, the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive. This disk format became known as the Single Sided Single Density or SSSD format. It was designed to hold just as much data as one box of 2000 punch cards.
The term "floppy disk" appeared in print as early as 1970, and although IBM announced its first media as the "Type 1 Diskette" in 1973, the industry continued to use the terms "floppy disk" or "floppy". In 1976, Shugart Associates introduced the 5 1⁄4-inch FDD.
The floppy disk drive (FDD) was invented at IBM by Alan Shugart in 1967. 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.