Floppy disk - Floppy killers - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Floppy Killers
Through the early 1990s a number of attempts were made by various companies to introduce newer floppy-like formats based on the now-unive...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - History
Floppy disk - Origins the 8-inch disk. See also: Table of 8-inch floppy formats In 1967 IBM gave their San Jose, California storage d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - History
Floppy disk - Origins the 8-inch disk. In 1967 IBM gave their San Jose, California storage development center a new task: develop a sim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Usability
One of the chief usability problems of the floppy disk is its vulnerability. Even inside a closed plastic housing, the disk medium is sti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Current Situation
The 8-inch, 5¼-inch and 3-inch formats can be considered almost totally dead. 3½-inch drives and disks are still widely available. As o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - More On Floppy Disk Formats
Floppy disk - Using the disk space efficiently. In general, data is written to floppy disks in a series of sectors, angular blocks of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Current Situation
The 8-inch, 5¼-inch and 3-inch formats can be considered almost totally dead. 3½-inch drives and disks are still widely available. As o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Structure
The 5¼-inch disk had a large circular hole in the center for the spindle of the drive and a small oval aperture in both sides of the pla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Background
Floppy disks, also known as floppies or diskettes (a name chosen in order to be similar to the word "cassette"), were ubiquitous in the 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Compatibility
In general, different physical sizes of floppy disks are incompatible by definition, and disks can only be loaded on the correct size of ...   » Read the article