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4 in × 1 in × 5.75 in (101.6 mm × 25.4 mm × 146 mm) = 376.77344 cm³. This smaller form factor is similar to that used in an HDD by Rodime in 1983, which was the same size as the "half height" 3½" FDD, i.e., 1.63 inches high. Today, the 1-inch high ("1/3 height," "slimline," or "low-profile") version of this form factor is the most popular ...
The one major flaw of the C-64 is not in the machine itself, but in its disk drive. With a reasonably fast disk drive and an adequate disk-operating system (DOS), the C-64 could compete in the business market with the Apple and perhaps with other business computers. With the present disk drive, though, it is hard-pressed to lose its image as a toy.
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 1 ⁄ 4 inch Single 1 35 10 256 soft 88 kB 300 FM Model 1/3/4 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 1 40 18 256 180 kB MFM Model 1/3/4P 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 2 40 18 256 360 kB MFM Model 4D 8 inch Double 1 77 26 256 500 kB MFM Model 2 3 1 ⁄ 2 inch Single 1 40 2 1,280 100 kB [28] FM Tandy Portable Disk Drive (aka Brother FB-100, knitking FD-19) 3 1 ⁄ 2 ...
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A: — Floppy disk drives, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 ″ or 5 + 1 ⁄ 4 ″, and possibly other types of disk drives, if present. B: — Reserved for a second floppy drive (that was present on many PCs). C: — First hard disk drive partition. D: to Z: — Other disk partitions get labeled here. Windows assigns the next free drive letter to the next drive it ...
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 ...
The Zip drive is a "superfloppy" disk drive that has all of the standard 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy drive's convenience, but with much greater capacity options and with performance that is much improved over a standard floppy drive. However, Zip disk housings are similar to but slightly larger than those of standard 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy disks. [2]