Floppy Disk Chronicles: The Tiny Tech That Shaped a Computer Century

Join us as we rewind from IBM's eight-inch 'minnow' to Sony's battle-tested 3.5-inch standard. We'll uncover the format wars, clever encoding tricks like GCR, and industry moves that made the 3.5-inch the default for a generation of PCs—and the world’s reliance on the save icon. Along the way, we’ll see how this tiny, dusty disk rose to dominance and then faded away, leaving a surprising footprint in our digital memory.

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