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Moving to the microfloppy. (IBM's new strategy; Ideas and trends)

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| June 01, 1987 | Valigra, Lori | COPYRIGHT 1987 Lotus Publishing Corp. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MOVING TO THE MICROFLOPPY

Following competitors Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Toshiba Corp., and others, IBM has endorsed 3-1/2-inch microfloppy-disk drives in its new computers. All Personal System/2 micros can read and write 720K micro-floppy disks, and all except the model 30 can also read and write 1.44-megabyte disks (formatted).

The 3-1/2-inch drives not only save space, they use more durable, hard-plastic-encased media that's easy and safe to transport. You can even put a stamp on one and send it through the mail.

Customers working with the new IBM computers must be sure they format their microfloppy media properly; that is, the …

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