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  2. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    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 Double 1 35 13 256 soft 113.75 kB 300 GCR [NB 2] 1 16 140 kB

  3. 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 ...

  4. KryoFlux - Wikipedia

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    It has been tested successfully with many generations of floppy disk drive including 8", 5.25", 3.5" and 3" mechanisms, and dozens of disk formats including numerous schemes originally designed to prevent software piracy, allowing the preservation (typically to an image file stored on hard disk or other modern media) of programs and data that ...

  5. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    Close-up of 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch disk Standard 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch disk with a blank label. In 1981, Sony introduced their 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy disk cartridge (90.0 mm × 94.0 mm) having a single sided unformatted capacity of 218.8 KB and a formatted capacity of 161.2 KB. [citation needed] A double sided version was available in 1982.

  6. 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 ...

  7. HDCopy - Wikipedia

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    HDCopy is a disk image application for floppy disks that runs in MS-DOS.It can copy a floppy on the fly, or by using archives with IMG file extension that store the content of the disk with a proprietary file format (whose first three bytes noted in hexadecimal will be FF 18, and its size will be anything [clarify]).

  8. Amstrad PCW - Wikipedia

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    The floppy disk drives on these models were in the unusual 3-inch "compact floppy" format, [13] which was selected as it had a simpler electrical interface than 3½-inch drives. [33] In the range's early days supplies of 3-inch floppies occasionally ran out, [13] but by 1988 the PCW's popularity encouraged suppliers to compete for this market. [34]

  9. Amiga Disk File - Wikipedia

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    The WinUAE Amiga emulator supports all three disk formats, but 3.5-inch double-density is the most common. ADF files can be downloaded and copied to Amiga disks with the EasyADF application and various applications freely available on the Internet. As they are plain disk images, they can be handled by the Unix tool dd. On Linux and NetBSD ...