In spring 2000, IBM expanded its DTLA hard disk series with two model series, the Deskstar 40GV and 75GXP. For the first time ...

Shipped in September 1956, the first 5MB hard disk unit weighed over a ton (approximately 2,200 pounds) and was used in the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to feature a moving-head ...

Aimed at the IBM PC, the Brain virus only slowed down the floppy disk drive and did no other damage. By replacing the boot sector in the floppy disk, a message would display claiming infection and ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

(1) For AMD's CPU, see Winchester. (2) An early removable disk drive from IBM that placed the read/write heads and platters in a sealed unit. Before the Winchester architecture, the read/write ...

Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of computer ...

The PC was widely fitted with either 5.25″ or 3.5″ disk drives, but other formats ... standard emerged as clones of the Shuggart drives used by IBM. It’s a modified version of this interface ...