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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Nor was 3M the first company to popularize magnetic media— that was Ampex , which commercialized the tape recorder in the late 1940s. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. At first, the innovation didn’t spread outside of Germany because of World War II. based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., tested all the commercially available pointing devices, from the still-popular light pen to a joystick and a Graphicon (a curve-tracing device that used a pen mounted on the arm of a potentiometer). Cupertino, Calif.,

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