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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    By 1988, the 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch was outselling the 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch. [69] In South Africa, the 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch format was generally called a stiffy disk, to distinguish it from the flexible 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch format. [70] [71] The term "3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch" or "3.5-inch" disk is and was rounded from the 90 mm actual dimension of one side of the ...

  5. Zip drive - Wikipedia

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    The Zip drive is a "superfloppy" disk drive that has all of the standard 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy drive's convenience, but with much greater capacity options and with performance that is much improved over a standard floppy drive.

  6. List of self-booting IBM PC compatible games - Wikipedia

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    These games were distributed on 5 + 1 ⁄ 4" or, later, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2", floppy disks that booted directly, meaning once they were inserted in the drive and the computer was turned on, a minimal, custom operating system on the diskette took over.

  7. Now That's What I Call Music! 11 (American series) - Wikipedia

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    Nikki Tranter of PopMatters says, "Universal releasing no less than 11 editions indicates just how rapidly brand new hits become stale oldies. Take their latest release, for example — three months after the release of the CD , many of these songs are already old news, some having long ago left the Billboard charts.

  8. Track (disk drive) - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1. Disk structures: (A) Track (B) Geometrical sector (C) Track sector (D) Cluster A disk drive track is a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information is read.

  9. Directorate General of Taxes (Indonesia) - Wikipedia

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    www.pajak.go.id The Directorate General of Taxes ( Indonesian : Direktorat Jenderal Pajak ; also known as DJP ) is an Indonesian government agency under Ministry of Finance which has the task of formulating and implementing taxation policies and technical standardization in the field of taxation .