floppy disk: Definition from Answers.com
floppy disk n. A flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic material and covered by a protective jacket, used primarily by computers to store data.
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floppy disk: Information from Answers.com
floppy disk A reusable magnetic storage medium and drive introduced by IBM in 1971. It was officially called a 'diskette,' but nicknamed 'floppy,'
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Floppy disk controller - Information from Answers.com
A floppy disk controller (FDC) is a special-purpose chip and associated disk controller circuitry that directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's ...
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Floppy Disk Drives Questions including "What is low-level formatting"
Floppy Disk Drives Questions including "What is low-level formatting" and "What is a portable diskette that holds 1.4 mb of data"
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Why is a floppy disk called floppy
A floppy disk is called a floppy because the original floppies were 8 inches wide and the disk was made out of vinyl so they were really flimsy and "floppy" hence ...
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What is the function of floppy disk drive
In the purest sense, the function of a floppy disk drive is to provide a means of writing/reading data on/from floppy disks in an industry standardized method.
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What are similarities of a floppy disk and a hard disk
In their basic form, floppy discs are common hard disks are the same technology. They both use magnetism to store and read data. They both use a spinning ...
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What is the storage capacity of floppy disks
Nowadays, the answer is 1.44 for a double sided high density 3.5" floppy disk. This answer is quite different for other types of floppy disks. There are single sided ...
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What is the difference between a hard drive and a floppy disk
A floppy disk is a rapidly aging -- if not already obsolete -- form of portable storing and transferring data. A floppy disk is either 5" or 3.5", with the 3.5" being more ...
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