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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 ...
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 ...
Iomega used the DirectCD software from Adaptec to allow UDF drive-letter access to CD-R or CD-RW media. The company released an open standard CD-R drive and CD-RW media under the same ZipCD name. Early models of ZipCD drives were relabeled Philips drives, which were also so unreliable that a class action lawsuit succeeded. [17]
The Quick Disk uses a 2.8-inch magnetic media, break-off write-protection tabs (one for each side), and contains a see-through hole near the center spindle (used to ensure spindle clamping). Nintendo packaged the 2.8-inch magnetic media in a 3-inch×4-inch housing, while others packaged the same media in a 3-inch×3-inch square housing.
No. 12 Oklahoma will look to extend its unbeaten start to the season on Sunday afternoon when it concludes its non-conference schedule against Prairie View A&M in Norman, Okla.
Krispy Kreme's Original Glazed doughnuts will be green on Friday and Saturday, and the doughnut chain is offering customers a free dozen of the Original Glazed doughnuts with the purchase of any ...
(Reuters) - France's largest video game maker Ubisoft has decided to discontinue development on XDefiant, its free-to-play first-person shooter title, it said on Wednesday. As a result, Ubisoft ...
A rear view of the Commodore 1541 disk drive, with the top cover and shielding removed. The Commodore 1541 (also known as the CBM 1541 and VIC-1541) is a floppy disk drive which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer.