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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. 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. IBM 3740 - Wikipedia

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    IBM 3740 Data Entry System was a data entry system that was announced by IBM in 1973. It recorded data on an 8" diskette, a new recording medium from IBM, for fast, flexible, efficient data entry to either high-production, centralized operations or to decentralized, remote operations. [1]

  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. Shugart Associates - Wikipedia

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    Shugart Associates (later Shugart Corporation) was a computer peripheral manufacturer that dominated the floppy disk drive market in the late 1970s and is famous for introducing the 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch "Minifloppy" floppy disk drive. In 1979 it was one of the first companies to introduce a hard disk drive form factor compatible with a floppy disk ...

  7. KryoFlux - Wikipedia

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    It can also read disks originally written with different bit cell widths and drive speeds, with a normal fixed-speed drive. [7] The software is available for Microsoft Windows, [8] Mac OS and Linux. The KryoFlux controller plugs into a standard USB port, and allows normal PC floppy disk drives to be plugged into it.

  8. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    8 inch Double 2 77 29 256 1.18 MB [32] 360 MFM HP 9130K 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 2 35 16 256 286 kB [33] 300 MFM Burroughs MD122 8 inch Double 2 139 44 256 soft 6.26 MB [18] 524 MFM Memorex 650 8 inch single 1 50 8 3,500 b: hard 1.4 Mb [15] 375 FM Memorex 651 single 64 32 1.056 b: 2.2 Mb [17]

  9. Micral - Wikipedia

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    An 8-inch floppy disk reader was added to the Micral in December 1973, following a command of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique. This was made possible by the pile-canal, a buffer that could accept one megabyte per second. In 1974, a keyboard and screen were fitted to the Micral computers.