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  2. Drive bay - Wikipedia

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    8.0-inch drive bays were found in early IBM computers, CP/M computers, and the TRS-80 Model II.They were 4 + 5 ⁄ 8 inches (117.5 mm) high, 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (241.3 mm) wide, and approximately 14 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (361.9 mm) deep, and were used for hard disk drives and floppy disk drives.

  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. 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. 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 ...