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The function of a floppy disk drive is to provide a means of writing/reading data on/from floppy disks in an industry standardized method. Floppy Disks were invented as an improved means for storing/transporting data on/from computers. The universality and standardization of disk storage technologies was important to the personal computer industry. By standardizing these complex technologies, computer manufacturers were able to, over time, inexpensively source drives and disks, thus reducing the cost of the computer systems. This made PC's more affordable for everyon

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Floppy Disks are made for storage of data and files. Floppy Disk is an external storage with limited amount of byte that can be stored. They can be locked or read/write.

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it allow us to save or to put storage it will be a lozers

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