Origins of the 3.5in Floppy Disk

"I got sucked into researching the origins of the 3.5in floppy disk after looking into one of my recent HP drives. That sent me on a long quest to better understand the format and finding out some very interesting things I didn't even know existed!"

-- Tech Tangents

Chapters: 0:00 Intro
0:43 Precursor History
2:05 3.5in Disk Creation
3:50 Why So Tall?
4:21 The ANSI Competition
7:23 Gaining Market Share
9:41 Who Was First to Use it?
12:27 WHO!?
15:23 The 3.5in Endures
16:28 Outro