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For putting a floppy disc in. Floppy discs were used a lot in the 1970's as CD's were not invented until the 1980's
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Can i use a floppy disk in a zip drive?
No. Zip drives cannot read floppy disks, and cannot be used on a traditional floppy controller.
Is a floppy disk 3.5 inch portable or fixed?
Floppy disk may be of any type is always portable, however the floppy disk "drives" are fixed.
Who manufactures floppy disk drives?
Floppy disk drives are or have been manufactured by a number of companies. These include Sony, Imation, Panasonic, Mitsumi, NEC, and Samsung.
What you inside a floppy disk into a so that data stored in the floppy disk can be read?
To read a floppy disk, you insert a floppy disk into a floppy disk drive. Not all computers have floppy disk drives. Typically desktop computers or ones that stand on the floor have floppy disk drives. New machines today allow a USB thumb drive (USB flash memory storage device) to be used in place of a floppy drive. All modern computersy have USB connections. If you need to read a floppy disk and you computer does not have a floppy disk drive, you can purchase a USB connected floppy disk drive for your computer.
What is the floppy drive usually referred to as?
Floppy disk drives, or just floppy disks. Nothing special.
What are floppy diskette drives?
Floppy diskette drives read and write information to a single rotating disk that can be removed from the drive.
Floppy disk disadvantages?
Mainly lack of capacity. A floppy disk is usually 1.44 MB. Modern flash drives, hard drives, etc. are in the gigabytes and terabytes ! You can still use a floppy drive (I have a USB external floppy drive), but it will become more difficult to get new floppy disks as manufacturers abandon a rather antiquated media.
What are the tree drives on a computer?
Hard drive, Disk drive and FLoppy disk drive
The memory devices of computers such as hard disks and floppy disk drives use materials to store data?
magnetic
What is The memory devices of computers such as hard disks and floppy disk drives use with materials to store data?
mass
Floppy Disk Drives were originally designed by which?
International business machine !!
When did DELL stop making PC'S with floppy disk drives?
Not sure
