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First there were "Super Floppies" that held about 2.88 MB of data... they didn't catch on very well. For a while, ZIP disks, with 100MB Each, were quite the rage. Now, with the inexpensive price of blank CD's, recordable CD's have become the replacement for floppies, especially since most computers can boot off of a CD or DVD anyway.
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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.
Flash drives have replaced floppy disks as the perferred method of portable storage because?
They can hold more data than floppy disks and computers aren't really made with floppy disk entrances :)
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 replaced the floppy disk as the preferred form of low-capacity mobile data storage?
I would say that Thumb/Flash USB drives were what replaced the Floppy Drive, they have an advantage over the Floppy for being able to transport more data in a safer way.
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.
What are the tree drives on a computer?
Hard drive, Disk drive and FLoppy disk drive
What has replaced a floppy disk?
data storage devices
Floppy Disk Drives were originally designed by which?
International business machine !!
When did DELL stop making PC'S with floppy disk drives?
Not sure
What type of drives record data on removable floppy disks?
Not sure what you're looking for here. We always just called them 'floppy disk drives.'
