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2. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk. The three most popular (and commercially ...

3. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   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, used for primary data storage as well as for backup and data transfers ...

4. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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   PocketZip (floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology) SuperDisk (floppy-like with drives also compatible with 3.5" floppy disks) Magneto-optical drive (floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology)

5. 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 ...

6. Floppy disk format - Wikipedia

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   Most floppy disks used by PCs use the FAT12 file system format, which imposes certain practical defaults on the logical geometry in order to be recognizable by all operating systems. Sometimes disks may use a more exotic file system. SSDD originally referred to Single Sided, Double Density, a format of (usually 4 -inch) floppy disks which could ...

7. History of IBM magnetic disk drives - Wikipedia

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   History of IBM magnetic disk drives. IBM manufactured magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. [ 1][ 2] Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD) were invented by IBM and as such IBM's employees were responsible for many of the innovations in these products and their ...