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Floppy disk may be of any type is always portable, however the floppy disk "drives" are fixed.
Floppy disk drives are or have been manufactured by a number of companies. These include Sony, Imation, Panasonic, Mitsumi, NEC, and Samsung.
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.
Floppy disk drives, or just floppy disks. Nothing special.
Floppy diskette drives read and write information to a single rotating disk that can be removed from the drive.
Hard drive, Disk drive and FLoppy disk drive
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Not sure what you're looking for here. We always just called them 'floppy disk drives.'
The head(s) in floppy drives make physical contact with the floppy disk surface, while the heads in hard disk drives fly over the hard disk surface on a cushion of air created by the platter rotation speed. All other features of the devices are similar.
It makes it much easier to copy a floppy disk.
Floppy diskette drives read and write information to a single rotating disk that can be removed from the drive.
No. Zip drives cannot read floppy disks, and cannot be used on a traditional floppy controller.