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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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He probably didn’t realize he was inventing a key element of 20th-century recording technology when he observed that auto body shops needed a way to “mask off” areas of vehicles that were being whittled down with sandpaper, but his observation would prove useful to the invention of masking tape. based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention.