Who invented the floppy disc?

Who invented the floppy disc?

In 1971, the IBM Company of USA introduced the first ‘memory disc’, as it was called then, or the ‘floppy disc’ as it is known today. IBM engineers, led by Alan Shugart invented the ‘floppy’. The first floppy was an 8” plastic disc coated with magnetic iron oxide. Data was written to, and read from the disk’s surface. The nickname ‘floppy’ came from its flexibility. The floppy disk was considered a revolutionary device at the time for it’s portability, which provided a new, and easy physical means of transporting data from computer to computer.