While the floppy disk isn’t quite dead yet, at this point in time Imation and its main competitors like Memorex are now mostly just a fading memory — while 3M is still plowing ahead ...

While the floppy disk isn’t quite dead yet, at this point in time Imation and its main competitors like Memorex are now mostly just a fading memory — while 3M is still plowing ahead ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches ... formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk (LS-120 and LS-240) which reached ...

Storage-media manufacturer Imation makes and sells not only old-school, 5 1/4-inch floppies but also the even floppier 8-inch disks that preceded them in the 1970s. One reason the floppy drive ...

(Remember Imation floppy disks? Remember floppy disks?) Meredith's work may be make or break for his employer. The 1996 spinoff from 3M (MMM) has lost money for three years running. Last year's ...

2009 was a difficult year for floppy disc manufacturing, but the business is actually rebounding a bit in 2010, said Will Qualls, global product director for the magnetic tape business of Imation.

Imation has no plans to outsource floppy diskettes, Allen said. It will discontinue the product when the Wahpeton facility closes. Floppy disks, once a mainstay of desktop computing, have been ...