![]() Thompson ended his career with more than 30 patents to his name. We glued some pink wipe on it, cut the holes in for the head and the center clamping and all of that and we put that on and lo and behold the problem disappeared, clean as a whistle.” The pink wipe was soon replaced with a different wipe that is still in use today. So, I bought a roll of that and went back and we got a file folder, manila file folder and cut it to size. But in those days the pink wipe was used in the household to clean, dust and that sort of thing and it picked up dust quite well. Here’s a look at how and why the floppy disk became an icon. ![]() Floppies made punched cards obsolete, and its successors ruled software distribution for the next 20 years. Fifty years ago, IBM introduced the first-ever floppy disk drive, the IBM 23FD, and the first floppy disks. As he recalls in the 2005 Oral History Panel on 8-inch Floppy Disk Drives from the Computer History Museum, “So, I run down to the local Safeway store and bought a roll of pink wipe and pink wipe is a material that looks like a roll of tissue paper we use today. From Idea to Icon: 50 Years of the Floppy Disk. With Ralph Flores, Thompson developed the cleaning jacket for the 8-inch floppy disk. Herbert Thompson earned his degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado in 1957.
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