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There have been several different types of disks that have been called "floppy"

1.44 megabytes could be stored on the most recent (3 1/2") floppies which were encased in hard plastic.

Earlier there were both 5 1/4" and 8" floppies these had a smaller capacities, for example of 360 Kb or 140 Kb respectively

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