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2. Drive bay - Wikipedia

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   Often represented as 5.25-inch, these floppy disk drives are obsolete. As the name indicates, two half-height devices can fit in one full-height bay. The dimensions of a 5.25-inch floppy drive are specified in the SFF standard specifications which were incorporated into the EIA-741 "Specification for Small Form Factor 133.35 mm (5.25 in) Disk ...

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. Commodore 1581 - Wikipedia

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   The Commodore 1581 is a 3½-inch double-sided double-density floppy disk drive that was released by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1987, primarily for its C64 and C128 home/personal computers. The drive stores 800 kilobytes using an MFM encoding [ 5 ] but formats different from the MS-DOS (720 kB), Amiga (880 kB), and Mac Plus (800 kB ...

6. 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.

7. Magneto-optical drive - Wikipedia

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   A current model is the T7-9100 drive, which has a maximum capacity of 9.1 GB and is downward read and write compatible with 5.2 GB, 4.8 GB, 4.1 GB, 2.6 GB, and 2.3 GB magneto-optical disks, and read compatible with 1.3 GB, 1.2 GB, 650 MB, and 600 MB magneto-optical disks.