One of the older computer storage mediums. They were made of discs of thin plastic, about the thickness of paper and covered with magnetic film. They replaced punch cards and reel to reel tapes as a storage mechanism. The original ones were 8 inches in diameter, eventually coming down in size to the 3" floppy. The amount of data improved with each generation, so that the last ones held as much as 100 Meg of data.
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 disk may be of any type is always portable, however the floppy disk "drives" are fixed.
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.