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  2. Macintosh External Disk Drive - Wikipedia

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    US$495. The Macintosh External Disk Drive is the original model in a series of external 3⁄ -inch floppy disk drives manufactured and sold by Apple Computer exclusively for the Macintosh series of computers introduced in January 1984. Later, Apple unified their external drives to work cross-platform between the Macintosh and Apple II product ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    3 12 inch SHARP CE-1600F, CE-140F: 2 12 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 Thomson UD90.070 Double 2 256 320 kB MFM Thomson DD90-320 [NB 17] 3 12 inch Double 1 80 16 256 320 ...

  5. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    History of the floppy disk. 8-inch, 5¼-inch, and 3½-inch floppy disks. A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into the 1990s ...

  6. Zip drive - Wikipedia

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    The Zip drive is a "superfloppy" disk drive that has all of the standard 3 + 12-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 + 12-inch floppy disks. [2]

  7. 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 ...

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