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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. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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   Common floppy disk formats, logical characteristics by platform Platform Size Density Sides Tracks/ side Sectors/ track Bytes/ sector Sectoring Capacity rpm Encoding Note Acorn: 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Single 1 40 10 256 soft 100 kB 300 FM 80 200 kB Double 1 40 16 256 160 kB MFM 80 320 kB 2 640 kB 3 1 ⁄ 2 inch Double 2 80 16 256 640 kB 300 MFM

4. Floppy disk format - Wikipedia

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   In the early 2000s, most floppy disk types and formats became obsolete, leaving the 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch disk, using an IBM PC compatible format of 1440 KB, as the only remaining popular format. Different floppy disk types had different recording characteristics, with varying magnetic coercivity (measured in oersteds , or in modern SI units in ...

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. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   Some machines using two disk drives (or one dual drive) allowed the user to leave the OS disk in place and simply change the application disks as needed, or to copy data from one floppy to another. In the early 1980s, “quad density” 96-track-per-inch drives appeared, increasing the capacity to 720 KB.

7. File Allocation Table - Wikipedia

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   While 86-DOS supported three disk formats (250.25 KB, 616 KB and 1232 KB, with FAT IDs 0xFF and 0xFE) on 8-inch (200 mm) floppy drives, IBM PC DOS 1.0, released with the original IBM Personal Computer in 1981, supported only an 8-sector floppy format with a formatted capacity of 160 KB (FAT ID 0xFE) for single-sided 5.25-inch floppy drives, and ...

8. Remember floppy disks? This supplier says business is booming

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   And if you built a plane 20 or 30 or even 40 years ago, you would use a floppy disk to get information in and out of some of the avionics of that airplane."Persky sells about 500 disks a daybut ...

9. Disk density - Wikipedia

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   Disk density is a capacity designation on magnetic storage, usually floppy disks. Each designation describes a set of characteristics that can affect the areal density of a disk or the efficiency of the encoded data.