First floppy disk According to Official Guinness Records,
In 1971 a team of IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart (USA) invented the floppy disk. The 20.32-cm2 (8-in2) plastic disk was nicknamed floppy because of its flexibility. Shugart went on to refine the design for Wang Computers, producing a 13.335-cm (5 1 /4 -in) flexible disk and disk drive in 1976. In 1981 Sony were the first to introduce the 8.89-cm 2 (3 1 /2 -in 2 ) drives and diskettes which are standard in modern personal computer systems.
For a complete list of 1971 records, please visit 1971 Guinness Records in United States .
Please choose a country from the list for relevant records:
Afghanistan Albania Antarctica Algeria Andorra Antigua and Barbuda Azerbaijan Argentina Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Caribbean Netherlands Armenia Barbados Belgium Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Belize Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Myanmar Belarus Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cayman Islands Central African Republic Sri Lanka Chile China Taiwan Colombia Comoros Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Ethiopia Estonia Faroe Islands Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Polynesia Gabon Georgia Palestinian Territory Germany Gibraltar Greece Greenland Guam Guatemala Guyana Holy See (Vatican City State) Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Jordan Kenya North Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Lesotho Latvia Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Mauritius Mexico Monaco Mongolia Moldova Morocco Mozambique Oman Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Norfolk Island Norway United States Minor Outlying Islands Micronesia Marshall Islands Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Rwanda San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Singapore Slovakia VietNam Slovenia Somalia South Africa Zimbabwe Spain Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago United Arab Emirates Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine Macedonia United Kingdom Jersey Isle of Man Tanzania United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Samoa Yemen Zambia Russia Related Images
Other United States records that might interest you: 
