General OFAC Information and Guidance. OFAC administers a number of different sanctions programs. The sanctions can be either comprehensive or selective, using the blocking of assets and trade restrictions to accomplish foreign policy and national security goals.
Beta was the first popular home video system. There was U-matic video tape before that. Also, of the more popular formats, Beta came first, the following year (1976) VHS came out, and Laser Discs two years after that. It took Beta and VHS to make home video popular.
Work on the drive for what became the media of the world's first floppy disk drive began in 1967 at a San Jose (CA) IBM facility. First introduced into the market as 8-inch floppy disks in 1972, they were followed by 5Â¼-inch disks in 1976 and 3Â½-inch disks in 1982.