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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 encoding methods for the data held on the disk.

  1. ^ Fletcher, Richard (2007-01-30). "PC World announces the end of the floppy disk". London: The Telegraph. Retrieved 2011-06-22.

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Floppy disk variants

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History of the floppy disk

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Floppy disk

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The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk. The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M's...

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Disk II

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The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk ][, is a 5 +1⁄4-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak at the recommendation of Mike...

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File Allocation Table

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use on floppy disks, it was adapted for use on hard disks and other devices. The increase in disk drives capacity required three major variants: FAT12...

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Hard disk drive

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A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk, is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...

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IBM PC DOS

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subdirectories and hard disk support for the new IBM XT, which debuted in March 1983. A new 9-sector format bumped the capacity of floppy disks to 360 KB. The...

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Disk enclosure

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slot size was initially used by drives for 5.25-inch-diameter (133 mm) floppy disks in the IBM PC AT. (The original "5.25-inch slot" in the IBM PC was with...

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Video Floppy

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Commodore 64 disk and tape emulation

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using the C64 as a server to the host for accessing floppy disks or using the host as a hard disk server for the C64. Over5 was developed in ????-2002...

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Fast loader

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loading from floppy disk or compact cassette. Fast loaders came about because of a discrepancy between the actual speed at which floppy drives could transfer...

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Group coded recording

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of modulation codes. The others are different mainframe hard disk as well as floppy disk encoding methods used in some microcomputers until the late 1980s...

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Beta Disk Interface

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version is 5.03 (1986). The Beta Disk Interface handles single- and double-sided, 40- or 80-track double-density floppy disks, and up to four drives. This...

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Spelling of disc

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Look up disc or disk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Disc and disk are both variants of the English word for objects of a generally thin and cylindrical...

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Microsoft BASIC

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Intel 8080-based NCR 7200, 7520, or 7530 data-entry terminal with 8-inch floppy disks in 1977/1978. Microsoft offered a BASIC compiler for BASIC-80 under CP/M...

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Amiga 1200

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£150 higher than the Commodore variant that had been sold for two years prior. It also came with a modified PC floppy disk drive that is incompatible with...

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RAM drive

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than other forms of digital storage, such as SSD, tape, optical, hard disk, and floppy drives. This performance gain is due to multiple factors, including...

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File system

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For example, a floppy disk that has been supermounted can be physically removed from the system. Under normal circumstances, the disk should have been...

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Apple Disk Image

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compression of floppy disk images is called DART. New Disk Image Format (NDIF) was the previous default disk image format in Mac OS 9, and disk images with...

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FreeDOS

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software and supporting embedded systems. FreeDOS can be booted from a floppy disk or USB flash drive. It is designed to run well under virtualization or...

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Xerox 820

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the CP/M operating system and uses floppy disk drives for mass storage. The microprocessor board is a licensed variant of the Big Board computer. Xerox...

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