Floppy disk
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- A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy or a diskette) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk. Floppy disks store digital data which can be read and written when the disk is inserted into a floppy disk drive (FDD) connected to or inside a computer or other device.
The first floppy disks, invented and made by IBM, had a disk diameter of 8 inches (203.2 mm). Subsequently, the 5¼-inch and then the 3½-inch became a ubiquitous form of data storage and transfer into the first years of the 21st century. 3½-inch floppy disks can still be used with an external USB floppy disk drive. USB drives for 5¼-inch, 8-inch, and other-size floppy disks are rare to non-existent. Some individuals and organizations continue to use older equipment to read or transfer data from floppy disks.
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Plakat: CeBIT Hannover
"Come on - ins COMPUTER CAMP"...
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Image: Historisches Museum Hannover - CC BY-NC-SA -
USB Diskettenlaufwerk Modell YD-8U10
Diskettenlaufwerk für 5 1/4...
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Image: Museumsgesellschaft Bad Dürkheim e. V. - CC BY-NC-SA -
3 1/2 Zoll Diskette 1,44 MB Speicherkapazität
3 1/2 Zoll Diskette...
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Image: Museumsgesellschaft Bad Dürkheim e. V. - CC BY-NC-SA -
Diskettenlaufwerk für den Heimcomputer C64 von Commodore
5 1/4-Zoll-Diskettenlaufwerk...
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Image: Freilichtmuseum Roscheider Hof - CC0 -
Laptop Armada 1530D der Firma Compaq
Laptop mit 12,1 Zoll...
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Image: Freilichtmuseum Roscheider Hof - CC0
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