Who is floppy disk?

Answer 1

Floppy disks are still used in a variety of machines (not desktop computers) that were built for years after the floppy was introduced. These machines (such as embroidery machines, machine tool devices, pianos, and some medical equipment) were built to last decades and are still in use.

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Answer 2

Click on the link below for more information. Floppy disks are a type of storage media now thought to be obsolete. They are so named because the actual disk inside consisted of a thin plastic disk which was very floppy. This differs from hard disks which use rigid aluminum or aluminum alloy platters for the storage medium.

The two most common types of floppy disks are 5.25 inch and 3.5 inch disks. Both have very small storage capacities by todays standards as well as painfully slow data transfer speeds, as a result they are not used much anymore, and most new computers are not equipped with floppy disk drives.

Answer 3

It's a disc that stores your files for work purposes like projects, homework, work, etc

Floppy discs are a mostly obsolete technology. In a floppy disc the magnetic recording medium is a flexible circular sheet of material similar to the material used for magnetic recording tape, while in a hard disk the magnetic recording medium is one or more aluminum disks coated with magnetizable material. Thus a floppy is floppy (even when inside a hard case like the various 3 inch discs).

The first floppies were 8 inch diameter, then 5 1/4 inch diameter, then several different 3 inch diameter hard cased floppies came out (one of which became standard).

Answer 4

floppy disks were the first convenient way of transporting files from one computer to another, like a cd-r.