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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 drive interface - Wikipedia

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    Most controllers support two floppy drives, so a cable could have 5.25-inch style connectors, 3.5-inch style connectors, or a combination. After IBM introduced the "twist" to floppy cables, and when both 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch drives were in common use, many cables had four connectors: one of each type before the twist, and one of each type ...

  4. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    White 5¼-inch floppy disk. Floppy disks were supported on IBM's PC DOS and Microsoft's MS-DOS from their beginning on the original IBM PC. With version 1.0 of PC DOS (1981), only single-sided 160 KB floppies were supported. Version 1.1 the next year saw support expand to double-sided 320 KB disks. Finally, in 1983, DOS 2.0 supported 9 sectors ...

  5. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 2 80 21 256 840 kB 300 MFM [NB 1] Amstrad CPC/PCW: 3 inch Double 1 40 9 512 180 kB 300 MFM Single head drive, but double-sided floppy discs (total of 360 kB per floppy) Amstrad PCW8512/9512: 3 inch Double 2 80 9 512 720 kB 300 MFM 720 kB mode uses both sides - ensure disc inserted correct way up. Apple II: 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch ...

  6. Micropolis Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Micropolis boot diskette, as used with the Micropolis dual 5.25-inch drive to boot an IMSAI 8080.. Micropolis's first advance was to take the existing 48 tpi (tracks per inch) standard created by Shugart Associates, and double both the track density and track recording density to get four times the total storage on a 5.25-inch floppy in the "MetaFloppy" series with quad density (Drives :1054 ...

  7. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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    8-, 5.25-, 3.5-, 2.5-, 1.8- and 1-inch HDDs, together with a ruler to show the length of platters and read-write heads A newer 2.5-inch (63.5 mm) 6,495 MB HDD compared to an older 5.25-inch full-height 110 MB HDD. IBM's first hard drive, the IBM 350, used a stack of fifty 24-inch platters and was of a size comparable to two large refrigerators.

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