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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. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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   Capacity is per side. [25] SHARP X68000: 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch High 2 77 8 1,024 1,232 kB [NB 11] 360 MFM 3 1 ⁄ 2 inch SHARP CE-1600F, CE-140F: 2 1 ⁄ 2 inch [2] [3] Single drive: 1, diskette: 2 16 8 512 2× 64 kB 270 GCR (4/5) Internally based on FDU-250 Micro Floppy Disk Drive Unit [2] Thomson: 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Single 1 40 16 128 80 kB 300 FM ...

4. Floppy disk variants - Wikipedia

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   A Maxell-branded 3-inch Compact Floppy Disk. The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. [1] Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats used in IBM PC compatible systems, or the 8-inch format that preceded them, many proprietary floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout and ...

5. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   The 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch disks had, by way of their rigid case's slide-in-place metal cover, the significant advantage of being much better protected against unintended physical contact with the disk surface than 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch disks when the disk was handled outside the disk drive. When the disk was inserted, a part inside the drive moved the ...

6. Disk II - Wikipedia

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   Disk II drives. The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk ][, is a 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak at the recommendation of Mike Markkula, and manufactured by Apple Computer It went on sale in June 1978 at a retail price of US$495 for pre-order; it was later sold for $595 (equivalent to $2,780 in 2023) including the controller card (which can ...

7. Floppy disk format - Wikipedia

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   Variables included the size of media (nominal 8-inch, 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch and others), encoding of data on the media (FM, MFM, M²FM, GCR), the number of disk tracks, one or two sides, the number of sectors in each track, and hard- or soft-sectoring. Even media that was physically interchangeable between two systems might not ...

8. Home Depot accused of faking Black Friday deals by masking ...

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   This week, a TikTok video appeared to show that Fortune 500 home improvement retailer Home Depot allegedly masked original prices on items with a “Black Friday deal” of the exact same price ...

9. Atari XF551 - Wikipedia

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   The XF551 is a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive produced by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit computers. Introduced in 1987, it matches the gray design language of the XE models. It was the first drive from the company with official support for double-density and double-sided floppy disks—360 kB of storage per disk—and was also the final floppy ...