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Eight inch floppy disks held about 160 KB. Later popular 5-1/4 inch floppy disks initially held 360 KB, but later a 1.2 MB version was introduced. Finally hard cased 3-1/2" floppy disks came out, which held 1.4 MB.
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When was the first floppy disc?
The first floppy disc was a 8-inch- IBM 23FD which was a read only was first introduced in 1971 its storage capacity was 79.7KB. Floppy disks were mostly referred to with imperial measurements,
Why Arrange compact disc,hard disk,digital versatile disc,pen drive,floppy disk in descending order of access speed and storage capacity.?
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What is a zip drive?
A zip drive is a storage device similar to a floppy disc but of a larger capacity, 100, 250 or 750 megabytes.
What is a legacy computer storage device?
Floppy disc drive.
What are items similar to a floppy disc?
A floppy disc is an old form of data storage device, so the answer would be CD's, DVD's and data sticks.
The floppy disk can be used to store over 5 megabytes of data?
A standard floppy disk can hold a maximum of 1.44MB. This is comprised of 720kb of data on both sides of the platter. Some floppy disk drives can read disks of upto 2.88MB in capacity.
How do you put a floppy disk in a PC?
In order to use a floppy disc you need to have a floppy disc drive.These days most computers don't have them at all, as they are so old floppy discs are hard to find..and the maximum capacity of a floppy disc is only 1.44Mb. I recently tried to buy some , but I couldn't find any at 15 different computer shops
What is the maimum storage capacity of a blu-ray disc?
50GB
What are the two disadvantages of a floppy disc?
They have less storage, access is slow (84ms) and it's not very durable.
Why are floppy disks used for temporary storage?
Data can be easily loss when floppy disc is placed near a source of magnet or radio wave interference.
What is a floppy dics?
what is a floppy disc
Is a floppy disc an input or output device?
A Floppy disc is a input device.
