By Tim Ferguson
Published: Tuesday 30 January 2007
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Name
Richard
Location
UK
Occupation
Consultant
Comment
Surely, a UK computer company was earlier?
>>"IBM introduced the first floppy disk in 1971"<<
I thought that English Electric or Elliot Automation (both later part of ICL) tried using 12 inch floppy disks for distributing software updates?
That would have been in the 1960s.
Like so many British innovations, it did not catch on.
In 1970, I was shown the obsolete 12 inch floppy drive on my (GEC/AEI/Marconi) company's Elliot 803?
ps. In 1972, the MD was finally allowed to order a replacement computer - a GEC computer.
This computer eventually arrived in 1982 - exactly the same model which had been ordered ten years earlier!
Instant obsolescence?
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