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2. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...

3. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   White 5¼-inch floppy disk. Floppy disks were supported on IBM's PC DOS and Microsoft's MS-DOS from their beginning on the original IBM PC. With version 1.0 of PC DOS (1981), only single-sided 160 KB floppies were supported. Version 1.1 the next year saw support expand to double-sided 320 KB disks. Finally, in 1983, DOS 2.0 supported 9 sectors ...

4. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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   8-inch, 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch, and 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy disks. This is a list of different floppy disk formats. Physical formats. Size Density Sides Tracks tpi bpi ...

5. A 1990s relic, floppy disks get second life at California ...

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   It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

6. Remember floppy disks? This supplier says business is booming

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   STORY: (Tim Persky, Floppy disk seller)"If you think this is old, take a look at this. This is a floppy disk from the 1970s."This man is believed to be the world's last known bulk supplier of ...

7. Floppy disks obsolete, headed for the recycle bin

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   You can officially move your old computer floppy disks to your obsolete file, since Sony has announced plans to discontinue selling them in Japan in March 2011, according to The Consumerist. The ...

8. Commodore 1541 - Wikipedia

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   The best-known floppy disk drive for the C64, the 1541 is a single-sided 170-kilobyte drive for 5¼" disks. The 1541 directly followed the Commodore 1540 (meant for the VIC-20 ). The disk drive uses group coded recording (GCR) and contains a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, doubling as a disk controller and on-board disk operating system ...

9. Verbatim (brand) - Wikipedia

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   A pair of 5.25" floppy disks from 1978. In 1969, the first digital-grade tape cassettes were released. [citation needed] 8" diskettes were first released in 1974. In 1991, Verbatim released the world's first 3.5" magneto-optical disk. Verbatim started its successful foray into the optical disc market in 1993 with CD-R media.