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jul 7, 1968 - IBM Minnow

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The IBM Minnow was a nickname for the product which marked the start of what we now call a ‘floppy disk’. This compact method to store data using magnetic tape was considered revolutionary (at its peak, 5 billion were sold per year in the 1990s through its later models)

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