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5¼-inch minifloppy
25 related topics
Also-rans
42 related topics
3½-inch microfloppy
26 related topics
8-inch floppy
17 related topics
Key facts & relationships
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Overview
- Floppy disk
- Magnetic storage
- Floppy disk drive
- IBM
- San Jose, California
- Word processing
- Personal computers Personal computer
- Variant sizes Floppy disk variants
- Mitsumi
- OEM Original equipment manufacturer
- VAR Value added reseller
- Nintendo
- Famicom Disk System
- Smith Corona
- MIDI keyboards MIDI keyboard
- MIDI samplers Sampler (musical instrument)
- Roland S-10
- Roland S-220
- MIDI sequencer
- Akai
- MIDI
- Dragon 32/64
- FAQ
8-inch floppy
- Writeable control store Control store
- Product Manager
- Alan Shugart
- Kilobytes Kilobyte
- Memorex
- Jack Harker
- Mohawk's Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation
- 3740 Data Entry System IBM 3740
- Punch cards Punched card
- Recording format
- Shugart Associates
- Form factor Form factor (design)
- Information Terminals Corporation
- Microcomputers Microcomputer
- Mass storage
- CP/M
- Cassette tape Compact audio cassette
5¼-inch minifloppy
- An Wang
- Wang Laboratories
- US$
- Apple Apple Inc.
- Shugart SA400
- Disk II
- Steve Wozniak
- Group Coded Recording
- Flippy disk
- Tandon Tandon Corporation
- Computer hardware
- Word processors Word processor
- OS Operating system
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Rainbow 100
- DECmate II
- Professional 300 Series DEC Professional (computer)
- IBM PC DOS
- MS-DOS
- IBM PC
- Double-sided Double-sided disk
- IBM AT
- Bit rate
- Coercivity
- Oersteds Oersted
Also-rans
- Apple Lisa
- FileWare Apple FileWare
- Apple Macintosh
- Format war
- Write protect Write protection
- Dysan
- BRG MCD-1
- Marcell Jánosi Marcell Jánosi?action=edit&redlink=1
- Hu Jánosi Marcell
- Amdek
- Apple II
- Quick Disk
- Hitachi Hitachi, Ltd.
- Matsushita Matsushita Electric Industrial
- Maxell
- Teac
- Tatung Tatung Company
- Yamaha Yamaha Corporation
- Amsoft
- Panasonic
- Schneider Schneider Rundfunkwerke
- Tandy Tandy Computers
- Godexco Godexco?action=edit&redlink=1
- Dixons Dixons Retail
- Amstrad
- CPC Amstrad CPC
- PCW Amstrad PCW
- PCW 8512 Amstrad PCW 8512
- PCW 9512 Amstrad PCW 9512
- ZX Spectrum +3
3½-inch microfloppy
- Sony's SMC-70 Sony SMC-70
- Jonos
- Hewlett-Packard
- HP-150
- Atari
- ST line Atari ST
- Commodore Commodore International
- Amiga
- DOS
- 31⁄2-inch support Timeline of DOS operating systems
- IBM PC Convertible
- Sirius Systems Technology
- Victor 9000
- Modified Frequency Modulation
- IBM PC compatibles IBM PC compatible
- Kibibytes Kibibyte
- Megabyte
- Mebibyte
- PS/2 IBM Personal System/2
- Macintosh IIx
- FDHD
- SuperDrive
- Amiga 4000
- NeXTcube
- NeXTstation
- IBM PS/2 Model 57
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.History of the floppy disk
Nodes139
Edges138
Triples7
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014388
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
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Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
disk drive format floppy disks drives 5¼-inch used kb 3½-inch ibm introduced media 8-inch density new mm apple use capacity
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| key entry | instance of | to write floppy disks for distribution to the field.Enhancement into a read/write floppy diskOther suppliers recognized the opportunity for a read/write FDD in applications | 0.80 | text |
| data logging | instance of | to write floppy disks for distribution to the field.Enhancement into a read/write floppy diskOther suppliers recognized the opportunity for a read/write FDD in applications | 0.80 | text |
| the Burroughs 1 MB unit failed to achieve any market presence.At the end of 1978 the typical floppy disk price per piece was | instance of | format.Other 8-inch floppy disk formats | 0.80 | text |
| key entry | instance of | Enhancement into a read/write floppy diskOther suppliers recognized the opportunity for a read/write FDD in applications | 0.80 | text |
| data logging | instance of | Enhancement into a read/write floppy diskOther suppliers recognized the opportunity for a read/write FDD in applications | 0.80 | text |
| the Tatung Einstein | instance of | It was also more reliable thanks to its hard casing.3-inch drives were also used on a number of exotic and obscure CP/M systems | 0.80 | text |
| occasionally on MSX systems in some regions | instance of | It was also more reliable thanks to its hard casing.3-inch drives were also used on a number of exotic and obscure CP/M systems | 0.80 | text |
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