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  2. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    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] Platform Size Density Side Track Sector Byte Sectoring Capacity RPM

  3. 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 ...

  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. [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 ...

  5. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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    8-, 5.25-, 3.5-, 2.5-, 1.8- and 1-inch HDDs, together with a ruler to show the length of platters and read-write heads A newer 2.5-inch (63.5 mm) 6,495 MB HDD compared to an older 5.25-inch full-height 110 MB HDD. IBM's first hard drive, the IBM 350, used a stack of fifty 24-inch platters and was of a size comparable to two large refrigerators.

  6. Drive bay - Wikipedia

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    For 2.5-inch bays, actual dimensions are 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (69.9 mm) wide, between 5 millimetres (0.20 in) and 3 ⁄ 4 inch (19.1 mm) high, and 3.955 inches (100.5 mm) deep. However, most laptops have drive bays smaller than the 15 mm specification. 2.5-inch hard drives may range from 7 mm to 15 mm in height.

  7. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    In South Africa, the 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch format was generally called a stiffy disk, to distinguish it from the flexible 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch format. [70] [71] The term "3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch" or "3.5-inch" disk is and was rounded from the 90 mm actual dimension of one side of the rectangular cartridge. The actual disk diameter is 85.8 millimetres (3.38 in).

  8. Human penis size - Wikipedia

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    One study analysing the self-reported Kinsey data set found that the average penis of a homosexual man was larger than the average penis of their heterosexual counterparts (6.32 inches [16.05 cm] in length amongst gay men versus 5.99 in [15.21 cm] in heterosexuals, and 4.95 inches [12.57 cm] circumference amongst gay men versus 4.80 in [12.19 ...

  9. .450 Nitro Express - Wikipedia

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    .450 Nitro Express also known as the .450 Nitro Express 3 1 ⁄ 4-inch is a rifle cartridge designed for hunting dangerous game such as elephant, rhino, cape buffalo, lion, and leopard. This cartridge is used almost exclusively in double rifles for hunting in the tropics or hot climates in general and is associated with the Golden Age of ...