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  2. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    Floppy disk. 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.

  3. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    8-inch, 5¼-inch, and 3½-inch floppy disks. 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 ...

  4. 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. 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 ...

  5. Disk storage - Wikipedia

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    Disk storage. Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk. The recording employs various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to the disk's surface layer. A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism. Notable types are hard disk drives (HDD ...

  6. Zip drive - Wikipedia

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    The Zip disk media. The back of a parallel-port ZIP-100 with printer pass-through. The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. [1] Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then ...

  7. Commodore 1541 - Wikipedia

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    Commodore 1541. The Commodore 1541 (also known as the CBM 1541 and VIC-1541) is a floppy disk drive which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer. The best-known floppy disk drive for the C64, the 1541 is a single-sided 170- kilobyte drive for 5¼" disks.

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