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Floppy Disk Formats
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This is a list of different floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, or a diskette) is an obsolescent type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined w ...
formats.
IBM 8-inch formats
This is a list of 8-inchfloppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, or a diskette) is an obsolescent type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined w ...
ette formats as introduced by IBM.
DEC 8-inch formats
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...
used the following formats on 8-inch disks:
Other manufacturers
Physical composition
Logical formats
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*Zip drive
The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was introduced by Iomega in late 1994. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 ...
(floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology)
* PocketZip
The PocketZip is a medium-capacity floppy disk storage system that was made by Iomega in 1999 that uses proprietary, small, very thin, 40 megabyte, MB Disk storage, disks. Its relation to the original Zip drive, Zip drive and disk is the flopp ...
(floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology)
* SuperDisk
The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk. The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M's storage products group Imation in 1997, with manufacturing chiefly by ...
(floppy-like with drives also compatible with 3.5" floppy disks)
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