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  2. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    2.5 Mb [16] [17] 8 inch Burroughs Double 2 139 150 7,100 2 [18] Logical formats. ... Size Density Sides Tracks/ side Sectors/ track Bytes/ sector 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. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    By 1988, the 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch was outselling the 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch. [69] 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Drive bay - Wikipedia

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    The difference between those widths and the name of the bay size is because it is named after the size of floppy that would fit in those drives, a 5.25-inch-wide square. Half-height drive bays are 1 + 58 inches (41.3 mm) high by 5 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (146.1 mm) wide, and are the standard housing for CD and DVD drives in modern computers. They ...

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  9. Letter (paper size) - Wikipedia

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    The Reagan administration made Letter-size paper the norm for US federal forms in the early 1980s; previously, the smaller "official" Government Letter size, 8 by 10.5 inches (203.2 by 266.7 mm) (aspect ratio: 1.3125), was used in government, while 8.5-by-11-inch (215.9 by 279.4 mm) paper was standard in most other offices. [2]