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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 ...
Victor 9000 / ACT Sirius 1 [26] 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Single 1 80 11-19 (variable) 512 612 kB [27] 252-417 (variable) GCR Disks varied sectors / track and disk speed to keep consistent bit density across tracks [26] Double 2 512 1,196 kB [27] Tandy TRS-80 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Each side of a double-density disk held 180 KB for a total of 360 KB per disk, and 720 KB for quad-density disks. [40] Unlike 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch or 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch disks, the 3-inch disks were designed to be reversible and sported two independent write-protect switches. It was also more reliable thanks to its hard casing.
After a home computer price war instigated by Commodore, the C64 and 1541 together cost under $500. [ citation needed ] The drive became very popular and difficult to find. The company said that the shortage occurred because 90% of C64 owners bought the 1541 compared to its 30% expectation, but the press discussed what Creative Computing ...
Sometimes disks may use a more exotic file system. SSDD originally referred to Single Sided, Double Density, a format of (usually 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch) floppy disks which could typically hold 35-40 tracks of nine 512-byte (or 18 256-byte) sectors each. Only one side of the disc was used, although some users did discover that punching additional ...