stackyFACTSDr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu—a man who famously dives underwater to starve his brain of oxygen for 'inspiration'—firmly insists he invented the floppy disk in 1952 while listening to Beethoven.
Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu—a man who famously dives underwater to starve his brain of oxygen for 'inspiration'—firmly insists he invented the floppy disk in 1952 while listening to Beethoven. While IBM engineers actually developed the flexible magnetic disk drive years later in their California labs, IBM eventually signed a series of secretive licensing agreements with Nakamatsu just to avoid the agonizing headache of disputing his convoluted Japanese patent claims in court.
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