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Floppy disk

A floppy disk, diskette, or floppy diskette is a type of disk storage made from a thin, flexible disk coated with a magnetic storage medium. It is enclosed in a square or nearly square plastic shell lined with fabric to help remove dust from the spinning disk. Floppy disks store digital data, which can be read or written when inserted into a floppy disk…

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Floppy disk

Nodes153
Edges152
Triples209
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013072
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Floppy disk

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related to Further reading · 31
Floppy disk → Abacus Software, Apple II History, Data Becker GmbH, Datamost, Disc Memory Operator's Manual, Disk Drive, Disk Operating System, Düsseldorf, Englisch, Gerald, German, Grand Rapids, Hewlett Packard, Immers, Inside Commodore DOS, ISBN, Lothar, Michigan, Neufeld, Norbert
related to 3½-inch · 21
Floppy disk → Convertible, DSED, IBM, IBM Personal System/2, In, KB, KiB, MB, MB Double-Sided Extended-Density, MiB, Micro, NeXTcube, NeXTstation, PC, PS/2, RS/6000, Single-sided, Sony, The, These
related to 5¼-inch · 17
Floppy disk → By, DM, DOS-based PCs, Double-Sided Double-Density, DSDD, GCR, IBM, In, KB, M2FM, Manchester, MB, MFM, PC/AT, Shugart Associates, The, There
related to Usage in the 21st century · 16
Floppy disk → BIOS, By, By January, Dell, Dell Dimension, Floppy, Hardware, If BIOS, In, In February, Industrial, OEM, Subsequently, The, This, USB
related to 8-inch · 15
Floppy disk → Burroughs Corporation, CP/M, Diskette, Diskettes, Early, Floppy, IBM, IBM's, It, Memorex, Read/write, Shugart Associates, The, These, Type
related to Historical sequence of floppy disk formats · 15
Floppy disk → Apple, CAV, CLV, Constant, Data, Floppy, For, Formatted, HD, KB, Macintosh, MB DMF, Microsoft, Some, The ANSI
related to High-capacity · 12
Floppy disk → At, DD, HD, In, KB, Many, MB, One, PCs, Some, SuperDisk, They
related to Legacy · 12
Floppy disk → As, Because, Examples, For, It, LibreOffice, Microsoft Paint, Most, UI, Unicode, Unlike, WordPad
see also · 12
Floppy disk → Berg, Brand, Computer, Copy, Copy That Floppy, Extended Density FormatShugart, Floppy, MS-DOS, Physics, Shell, Software, Unix
related to External links · 11
Floppy disk → ANSI X3, Floppy Disk Types, How Floppy Disk Drives, HowStuffWorks, Information, September, Specifications Archived, The Floppy User Guide, Wayback Machine, WorkComputer Hope, X3

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disk floppy disks drives drive mm data used 3½-inch capacity 90 mb standard read sectors media format storage track ibm

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Memorexinstance ofThese disks and associated drives were produced and improved upon by IBM and other companies0.80text
Shugart Associatesinstance ofThese disks and associated drives were produced and improved upon by IBM and other companies0.80text
and Burroughs Corporationinstance ofThese disks and associated drives were produced and improved upon by IBM and other companies0.80text
differential Manchester encodinginstance ofwith hard- and soft-sector versions and encoding schemes0.80text
programmable machineryinstance ofIndustrial automation equipment0.80text
industrial robots may not have a USB interfaceinstance ofIndustrial automation equipment0.80text
the Apple II mechanism attempt to move the head the maximum possible number of positions needed to reach track zeroinstance ofDrives without a sensor0.80text
knowing that once this motion is completeinstance ofDrives without a sensor0.80text
the head will be positioned over track zeroinstance ofDrives without a sensor0.80text
2M/2MGUIinstance ofand up to nearly 2 MB with utilities0.80text
Floppy diskrelated to 3½-inchIn0.60section
Floppy diskrelated to 3½-inchMicro0.60section

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