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  2. IMG (file format) - Wikipedia

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    RaWrite and WinImage use the IMG disk image format to read and write floppy disk images. ImDisk and Virtual Floppy Drive can mount a raw image of a floppy disk to emulate a floppy drive under Microsoft Windows. Nero Burning ROM supports reading IMG files for creating bootable CDs. mtools allows manipulation of MS-DOS floppy disk images in Unix ...

  3. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    Floppy disks store digital data which can be read and written when the disk is inserted into a floppy disk drive (FDD) connected to or inside a computer or other device. [ 2 ] The first floppy disks, invented and made by IBM in 1971, [ 3 ] had a disk diameter of 8 inches (203.2 mm). [ 4 ]

  4. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    Zip drive (floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology) 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 format - Wikipedia

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    Floppy disk format and density refer to the logical and physical layout of data stored on a floppy disk.Since their introduction, there have been many popular and rare floppy disk types, densities, and formats used in computing, leading to much confusion over their differences.

  6. KryoFlux - Wikipedia

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    It can also read disks originally written with different bit cell widths and drive speeds, with a normal fixed-speed drive. [7] The software is available for Microsoft Windows, [8] Mac OS and Linux. The KryoFlux controller plugs into a standard USB port, and allows normal PC floppy disk drives to be plugged into it.

  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 ...

  8. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    Drawings from IBM Floppy Disk Drive Patents. IBM's decision in the late 1960s to use semiconductor memory as the writeable control store for future systems and control units created a requirement for an inexpensive and reliable read only device and associated medium to store and ship the control store's microprogram and at system power on to load the microprogram into the control store.

  9. Commodore 1581 - Wikipedia

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    Special software is required to read 1581 disks on a PC due to the different file system. An internal floppy drive and controller are required as well; USB floppy drives operate strictly at the file system level and do not allow low-level disk access. [9]