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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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.
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).
floppy disks were the first convenient way of transporting files from one computer to another, like a cd-r.
a floppy disk slot is what you put the floppy disk in on a CPU
A floppy disk DRIVE can read, erase and save information on a floppy disk. The disk can't do it by himself.
no the floppy disk rotate slower its because hard disk rotate faster then floppy disk
It's higher than Floppy Disk Associate, but not quite Floppy Disk Board of Directors.
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.
The term "Floppy disk" is also used in German as is "Diskette" or "Floppy"
(giggle) FLOPPY disk? Heehee!
Correction: the "A" Drive is a floppy disk dirve that holds, reads and writes on the floppy disk.
The floppy disk which is commonly referred to as a high density floppy disk is a 3.5 inch disk. It has a storage capacity of 1.44 MB.
Floppy disks.
Formatting prepares a floppy disk to store data
A floppy disk is about 5 MB big, so 5120 KB will fit on a floppy disk.