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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. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    SuperDisk (floppy-like with drives also compatible with 3.5" floppy disks) Magneto-optical drive ... "RX02 8 inch Floppy Drive Information". David Gesswein

  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. Floppy disk drive interface - Wikipedia

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    3.5-inch and 5.25-inch drives connect to the floppy controller using a 34-conductor flat ribbon cable for signal and control. Most controllers support two floppy drives, although the Shugart standard supports up to four drives attached to a single controller. A cable could have 5.25-inch style connectors, 3.5-inch style connectors, or a ...

  6. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] With increasing sales of microcomputers having built in floppy-disk drives (FDDs), HDDs that would fit to the FDD mountings became desirable. Thus HDD Form factors, initially followed those of 8-inch, 5.25-inch, and 3.5-inch floppy disk drives. Because there were no smaller floppy disk drives, smaller HDD form factors ...

  7. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    The CF has a harder casing than a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy; the metal door is opened by a sliding plastic tab on the right side. The 3-inch floppy drive itself was manufactured by Hitachi, Matsushita and Maxell. [39] Only Teac outside this "network" is known to have produced drives.