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common generations of floppy disks (and drives), many other floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout
Floppy_disk_variants
A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and
History_of_the_floppy_disk
Removable disk storage medium
A floppy disk, diskette, or floppy diskette is a type of disk storage made from a thin, flexible disk coated with a magnetic storage medium. It is enclosed
Floppy_disk
Computer storage interface standard
connection is used for computer storage such as hard disks, high-capacity floppy disk variants, optical disks, and tape. The standard is maintained by the X3/INCITS
Parallel_ATA
Storage medium from Imation
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
SuperDisk
Floppy disk drive for the Apple II computer
The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk ][, is a 5 +1⁄4-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak at the recommendation of Mike
Disk_II
Discontinued family of computer operating systems
system, equipped with a Shugart Associates 8-inch floppy-disk drive interfaced via a custom floppy-disk controller. It was written in Kildall's own PL/M
CP/M
Specialized casing
slot size was initially used by drives for 5.25-inch-diameter (133 mm) floppy disks in the IBM PC AT. (The original "5.25-inch slot" in the IBM PC was with
Disk_enclosure
Data storage device
double-sided disk is a disk of which both sides are used to store data. Early floppy disks only used one surface for recording. The term single-sided disk was
Double-sided_disk
Video storage format
It consists of a 2-inch magnetic floppy disk used to store still frames of composite analog video. A video floppy could store up to 25 frames either
Video_Floppy
Microsoft computer operating system
targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application software
MS-DOS
using the C64 as a server to the host for accessing floppy disks or using the host as a hard disk server for the C64. Over5 was developed in ????-2002
Commodore 64 disk and tape emulation
Commodore_64_disk_and_tape_emulation
Computer operating system
subdirectories and hard disk support for the new IBM XT, which debuted in March 1983. A new 9-sector format bumped the capacity of floppy disks to 360 KB. The
IBM_PC_DOS
File system used by MS-DOS and Windows 9x
developed in 1977 for use on floppy disks, it was adapted for use on hard disks and other devices. The increase in disk drive capacity over time drove
File_Allocation_Table
Disc vs. disk
Look up disc or disk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Disc and disk are both variants of the English word for objects of a generally thin and cylindrical
Spelling_of_disc
File format developed by Apple and used by macOS
compression of floppy disk images is called DART. New Disk Image Format (NDIF) was the previous default disk image format in Mac OS 9, and disk images with
Apple_Disk_Image
Computer operating system
two years earlier it had been slow to adapt CP/M for new floppy disk formats and hard disk drives. In April 1980, SCP assigned 24-year-old Tim Paterson
86-DOS
1977–1993 series of microcomputers
series eventually supported over 1,500 software programs. When the Disk II floppy disk drive was released in 1978, a new operating system, Apple DOS, was
Apple_II
Disk interface for ZX Spectrum computers
version is 5.03 (1986). The Beta Disk Interface handles single- and double-sided, 40- or 80-track double-density floppy disks, and up to four drives. This
Beta_Disk_Interface
Raw disk image
to refer to floppy disk image files by some programs. A variant of raw image, called IMZ, consists of a gzipped version of a raw floppy disk image. These
IMG_(file_format)
Open source clone of MS-DOS
software and supporting embedded systems. FreeDOS can be booted from a floppy disk or USB flash drive and is designed to run well under virtualization or
FreeDOS
1986 IBM PC boot sector computer virus
boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the virus. The real boot sector is moved to another sector and marked as bad. Infected disks usually have five
Brain_(computer_virus)
Tool for Commodore 1541
The Epyx Fast Load is a floppy disk fast loader cartridge made by American software company Epyx in 1984 for the Commodore 64 home computer. It was programmed
Epyx_Fast_Load
Computer virus
sectors of infected floppy disks and master boot records of infected hard disks, along with the phrase "Legalise Marijuana". Later variants produced a range
Stoned_(computer_virus)
integrated the M.2 storage interface controller in CPU. In 1990s PCs, the floppy disk controller is usually integrated in super I/O chip. In older PCs, the
Storage_controller
1981 American microcomputer model
with one or two 5.25″ floppy disk drives, storing 160 KB per disk side for a total of 320 KB of storage on one disk. The floppy drives require a controller
IBM_Personal_Computer
Electro-mechanical data storage device
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical computer data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data
Hard_disk_drive
RAM used to emulate secondary storage
than other forms of digital storage, such as SSD, tape, optical, hard disk, and floppy drives. This performance gain is due to multiple factors, including
RAM_drive
Utility in Mac OS
of floppy disks created by the 4.2 version of Disk Copy. DART is a variant that supports compression, and was initially handled by the DART (Disk Archive/Retrieval
Disk_Copy
expensive floppy disk drives or even cassette tape drives as both secondary storage and transport media. However, by the late 1980s, hard disk drives were
History_of_hard_disk_drives
Hard disk drive
cable interface is very similar to the standard Shugart floppy disk interface; like that floppy disk interface, it can support four drives. The data cable
ST-506/ST-412
Multimedia entertainment and video game console
earlier Amiga systems, but featured a single-speed CD-ROM drive and no floppy disk drive as standard. Commodore marketed the machine as an all-in-one multimedia
CDTV
Programming language
Intel 8080-based NCR 7200, 7520, or 7530 data-entry terminal with 8-inch floppy disks in 1977/1978. Microsoft offered a BASIC compiler for BASIC-80 under CP/M
Microsoft_BASIC
1992 personal computer
£150 higher than the Commodore variant that had been sold for two years prior. It also came with a modified PC floppy disk drive that is incompatible with
Amiga_1200
Second generation of personal computers by IBM
innovations, such as the 16550 UART (serial port), 1440 KB 3.5-inch floppy disk format, 72-pin SIMMs, PS/2 mouse and keyboard port, and VGA, went on
IBM_PS/2
8-bit home computer introduced in 1982
be believed", while criticizing the use of Commodore BASIC 2.0, the floppy disk performance which is "even slower than the Atari 810 drive", and Commodore's
Commodore_64
commands provided by the MS-DOS disk operating system (DOS), especially as used on an IBM PC compatible computer. Other DOS variants as well as the legacy Windows
List_of_DOS_commands
Family of operating systems for IBM PC compatibles
and "B" for floppy drives. On systems with only one floppy drive DOS assigns both letters to the drive, prompting the user to swap disks as programs alternate
DOS
1987 computer by Compaq
20 MHz Intel 80386 CPU, 1 MB RAM, 16 KB ROM, 1.2 MB 5¼-inch floppy, 40 or 100 MB hard disk drive, priced at US$7,999 or 9,999 respectively, and a 10" amber
Compaq_Portable_386
Memory card format
floppy disk. Indeed, the format was originally named Solid State Floppy Disk Card (SSFDC), and the physical design resembles a miniature 3.5" floppy disk
SmartMedia
Desktop computer developed by Xerox
the CP/M operating system and uses floppy disk drives for mass storage. The microprocessor board is a licensed variant of the Big Board computer. Xerox
Xerox_820
into the console, but these variants were made obsolete by the reduction in cost of floppy diskette drives. Floppy disk drives were initially very costly
List_of_home_computers
Computer filing system
For example, a floppy disk that has been supermounted can be physically removed from the system. Under normal circumstances, the disk should have been
File_system
Topics referred to by the same term
VM Minidisk (floppy), 5.25-inch floppy diskette type Minidisk (VM), a virtual disk provided by the CP-67 or VM operating system Mini-Disk [de], a consumer
Minidisk
Discontinued operating system for x86 processors
ACT series' non-standard 315 KB and 720 KB FAT12 floppy formats. The logical sectored FAT hard disk format (partition type 0xF2) of Sperry IT PCs, and
DOS_Plus
American computer manufacturer
3740-compatible floppy disks drives, capable of storing about 262 kilobytes of data per disk. Up to 6 desktop consoles and 4 floppy drives could be handled
Q1_Corporation
with Windows XP. When one formats a floppy in Windows XP and selects "Create an MS-DOS startup disk", the floppy is formatted with a DOS version that
Comparison of MS-DOS compatible operating systems
Comparison_of_MS-DOS_compatible_operating_systems
Home video game console
robot. In Japan, Nintendo released the Famicom Disk System add-on to distribute games on floppy disks, although it gradually reduced support for the peripheral
Nintendo_Entertainment_System
Computer designed to be used at a fixed location
components), disk storage (usually one or more hard disk drives, solid-state drives, hybrid drives, optical disc drives, and in early models floppy disk drives);
Desktop_computer
Computer released in 1984
setup program in ROM rather than on disk. The standard floppy drive was upgraded to a 1.2 MB 5+1⁄4 inch floppy disk drive (15 sectors of 512 bytes, 80
IBM_Personal_Computer_AT
Vendor-neutral file system, used in practice for DVDs and other optical discs
on-disc just as a general-purpose filesystem would on removable media like floppy disks and flash drives. This is also possible on write-once media, such as
Universal_Disk_Format
compatibility with the VIC-20 and Commodore PET. In the United States, the 1541 floppy disk drive was widespread. By contrast, in Europe, the C64 was often used
Commodore_64_peripherals
Notebook computer
a 1.44 MB floppy disk drive, an upgrade from the NC200's 720 KB drive. Its user guide cautions against using the low-density floppy disks. There were
Amstrad_NC100
Family of standardized home computer architectures released between 1983 and 1992
(the floppy disk drive interface), connected to an external case with the drive. In South America, many of these systems used a 5.25 in (133 mm) floppy disk
MSX
Operating system of the Atari ST range of computers
home computers, it was an almost instant-running OS. TOS booted off floppy disks in the very first STs, but only about half a year after the ST was introduced
Atari_TOS
Personal computer from Commodore, 1987
additionally equipped with the IBM PC Compatible bridgeboard and 5.25" floppy disk drive (which was important for real-world interoperability at this time)
Amiga_2000
Home computers produced by Amstrad
integrated storage device, either a compact cassette deck or 3-inch floppy disk drive. The main units were only sold bundled with either a colour, green-screen
Amstrad_CPC
Discontinued family of computer operating systems
Similar, MP/NOS contained MP/M without local disk facilities. Like CP/NOS, MP/NOS performed the disk functions through the network. The system allowed
MP/M
Filmless SLR camera model
stored analog black and white images (NTSC) on a magnetic two-inch video floppy disk. It was targeted at press photographers who needed to quickly get photos
Nikon_QV-1000C
Early Z80-based microcomputer
2025). There were several variants, including the SuperBrain II (released in 1982), SuperBrain II Jr., "QD" (quad-density disk drives) and "SD" (super density)
Intertec_Superbrain
1995 Microsoft operating system version
Preview Program. For US$19.95/£19.95, users would receive several 3.5-inch floppy disks that would be used to install Windows 95 either as an upgrade from Windows
Windows_95
Type of electrical connector
for connecting external floppy disk drives. Atari also used this connector on their 16-bit computer range for attaching hard disk drives and the Atari laser
D-subminiature
one 1.2-megabyte floppy-disk drive, will sell for $3,995, according to a source close to IBM. Model 99, with a 1.2-megabyte floppy-disk drive and a 20-megabyte
List of IBM Personal Computer models
List_of_IBM_Personal_Computer_models
Topics referred to by the same term
pharmaceutical from Rib-X Pharmaceuticals DEC RX02, 8"-floppy system, see List of floppy disk formats RX2, FIA rallycross racing category This disambiguation
RX2
Boot sector computer virus
(Ping-Pong.A) only infects floppy disks. Later variants of this virus such as Ping-Pong.B and Ping-Pong.C also infect the hard disk boot sector as well. While
Ping-Pong_(computer_virus)
British electronics company
year, the ZX Spectrum +3, with a built-in floppy disk drive (similar to the CPC 664 and 6128), taking the 3" disks that many Amstrad machines used. In 1986
Amstrad
Line of home computers from Atari Corporation
built-in double-sided floppy disk drive, but without RF modulator 1040STFM a 520STFM with 1 MB of RAM and a built-in double-sided floppy disk drive with RF modulator
Atari_ST
Integrated circuit
floppy disk drives contained one CIA each. Furthermore, the Amiga home computers and the Commodore 1581 floppy disk drive employed a modified variant
MOS_Technology_CIA
Atari-related hardware
require separate software, which was usually bundled on cartridge or floppy disk. Because the Atari 400/800 8-bit computers were bundled with an RF modulator
Atari 8-bit computer peripherals
Atari_8-bit_computer_peripherals
Personal computer system
Commodore 2031 single disk drive (170 KB single-sided 5.25-inch format) Commodore 2040/3040 dual disk drives – The initial dual floppy disk drive units. 2040
Commodore_PET
Series of PCs by NEC, sold primarily in Japan
density 5+1⁄4-inch and 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disks use the same logical format and data rate as 1232 KB 8-inch floppy disks. They became a non-standard format
PC-98
1991 DOS boot sector computer virus
sector 7. On floppy disks, if the disk is 360 KB, the virus moves the original boot sector to cylinder 0, head 1, sector 3. On other disks, the virus moves
Michelangelo_(computer_virus)
Series of personal computer
cards thereby making more slots available. It has one 5.25-inch floppy drive and no hard disk (can be installed). The PC 5 was released with MS-DOS 2.11 and
Commodore IBM PC compatible systems
Commodore_IBM_PC_compatible_systems
Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 Workstations, Sun Microsystems, 1998-2002
requires special low height DIMMs or leaving the floppy drive out. It included a single EIDE Hard Disk Drive of between 4 and 20 GB, a CD-ROM drive, three
Ultra_5/10
Qualifier for the rated speed of an optical disc drive
(CLV). A typical CD-ROM drive operates in CLV mode, in contrast to a floppy or hard disk drive, or gramophone, which operates in CAV mode. In CAV mode, the
Constant_angular_velocity
MSDOS-like operating system
DR-DOS is a disk operating system for IBM PC compatibles, originally developed by Gary A. Kildall's Digital Research, Inc. and derived from Concurrent
DR-DOS
File system used on Amiga computers
structural data on less reliable media such as floppy disks. When higher-speed media (i.e. hard disks) became more available to the Amiga, this redundant
Amiga_Fast_File_System
Defunct American computer company
Z80A processor seven expansion slots and a floppy disk drive; and the 6000 CPU-2, which has two such disk drives and a third Z80A processor. Each cabinet
Billings_Computer
keys and 11 numeric keys (in separate blocks), a 32-character screen, a floppy disk (capacity - 140,000 characters), a thermal printer (speed - 28 characters/second)
History_of_laptops
IBM PC compatible home computer system
has a 3.5" internal floppy disk drive mounted in a 5.25" bay with room for an optional second internal 3.5" or 5.25" floppy disk drive. The rear panel
Tandy_1000
Process of booting a computer from a network
firmware to a network disk via NetBoot. Old personal computers without network boot firmware support can utilize a floppy disk or flash drive containing
Network_booting
Polyphonic synthesizer
5-inch SS/DD floppy disk drive, which is used to boot the operating system as well as to store samples and sequences. Each sample disk includes a copy
Ensoniq_Mirage
Family of archive file formats
files by floppy disk was common, yet writing to disks was very time-consuming. If you had a large zip file, possibly spanning multiple disks, and only
ZIP_(file_format)
Personal computer by IBM
and follow same disk pattern as the initial models (one floppy, two floppies, and floppy plus hard drive) but with a 20 MB hard disk. They (and all subsequent
IBM_3270_PC
American computer manufacturer of the 1980s
that came with single-sided floppy disk drives could be upgraded to double-sided drives, and some that came with only one floppy drive could have a second
Kaypro
Personal computer by Commodore
a 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disk drive. The user can also install up to three external floppy drives, either 3+1⁄2- or 5+1⁄4-inch, via the disk drive port. The
Amiga_500
Lightweight Linux distribution
USB device booting is not directly supported in the BIOS, the Puppy floppy boot disk can be used to kick-start it). It is possible to run Puppy Linux with
Puppy_Linux
Prototype computer
which was almost 10 years old by this time.) One internal 3½" DSDD floppy disk drive Keyboard with 77 keys and an inverted T directional cursor block
Commodore_65
Personal computer model released in 1983
PC). PC DOS 2.0 offers a 9-sector floppy disk format, providing 180K/360K (single- vs. dual-sided) capacity per disk, compared to the 160K/320K provided
IBM_Personal_Computer_XT
Sector of persistent data storage device
sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, optical disc, etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded into
Boot_sector
first computers to have built in floppy drives as well as being one of the first personal computers to have a hard disk drive. The computer consists of
North_Star_Horizon
Logic bomb DOS computer virus
the virus is not able to infect a file on a read-only device such as a floppy disk. One of the clues that a computer is infected is the mis-capitalization
Jerusalem_(computer_virus)
Meritum II consists of the Meritum I model 2 computer and an external floppy disk unit with two 5¼″ drives. The memory has been expanded to 32 KB or 48 KB
Mera-Elzab_Meritum
Table inside a master boot record
Company. ISBN 978-0-201-60835-9. (xxvi+738+iv pages, 3.5"-floppy [1][2]) Errata: [3][4][5] "Disk Concepts and Troubleshooting". Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft
Partition_type
Tower unit personal computer
mode in use) Removable Storage: 3.5" HD floppy disk drive, capacity 1.76 MB Internal storage: 34-pin floppy connector 40-pin buffered ATA-Controller
Amiga_4000T
Complete, bootable computer installation that runs directly from a CD-ROM
the introduction of inexpensive read-write storage, read-write floppy disks and hard disks were used as boot media. After the introduction of the audio
Live_CD
Operating system for Tandy TRS-80 computers
physical floppy (mini-diskette) drives which (as sold) use 5¼-inch diskettes. The original TRSDOS for the Model I supported only single-sided disks with 35
TRSDOS
Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread
attached itself to the Apple DOS 3.3 operating system and spread via floppy disk. On its 50th use the Elk Cloner virus would be activated, infecting the
Computer_virus
Discontinued modular real-time multiuser multitasking operating system
subdrivers, and it came with driver prototypes for floppies, hard disks, printers, serial interfaces, RAM disks, mice and console drivers. During boot, the FLEX286
FlexOS
Home computer introduced in 1992
interface. Although it is possible to load the necessary drivers from floppy disk, it is not possible to boot directly from ATA or PCMCIA devices. Models
Amiga_600
FLOPPY DISK-VARIANTS
FLOPPY DISK-VARIANTS
Male
German
 Short form of German Diederick, DIRK means "first of the people; king of nations."
Male
Dutch
, people's ruler.
Male
Egyptian
, the most lovely Disk.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Fleury.German variant of the Huguenot name Fleury (see Flory).
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Florrie, FLORRY means "blossoming." Compare with masculine Florry.
Male
English
 Short form of English Richard, DICK means "powerful ruler." Compare with another form of Dick.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, Jamaican, Latin
Poppy; Flower Name; From the Flower
Female
English
English name derived from the flower name, from Latin papaver, which may be a reduplication of the base *pap-, POPPY means "to swell."Â
Girl/Female
British, English
Direction
Boy/Male
Australian, Egyptian
Sun Disk
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Diss in Suffolk, which gets its name from a Norman pronunciation of Middle English diche, Old English dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ (see Dyke).German : habitational name from Dissen near the Teutoburg forest.
Boy/Male
German Teutonic American Dutch English
Dagger.
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a fish in some way, from Old Norse fiskr ‘fish’ (cognate with Old English fisc).
Girl/Female
Norse
Spirited.
Boy/Male
Swedish English
Fisherman.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : unexplained. The name has been recorded in Glastonbury, Somerset, since 1705.Perhaps a variant of Czech LiÅ¡ka, (see Liska), Slovak LÃÅ¡ka, or German Liske.
Boy/Male
Teutonic American English German Shakespearean
Rules the people.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic FlaithrÃ, FLORRY means "prince-king." Compare with feminine Florry.
Male
Egyptian
, disk.
Girl/Female
Norse Greek
Spirited.
FLOPPY DISK-VARIANTS
FLOPPY DISK-VARIANTS
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Benefield.
Boy/Male
Indian, Telugu
Sweet Voice
Girl/Female
Tamil
Unique
Boy/Male
Australian, Irish
Supplanter
Girl/Female
American, Danish, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Russian
Victory of the People; Unconquerable
Girl/Female
Sikh
Praise of one
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Heaven; Jannat
Girl/Female
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Japanese, Kannada, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
According to the Mind
Girl/Female
Hindu
Wave
Boy/Male
Hebrew
The sun's man.
FLOPPY DISK-VARIANTS
FLOPPY DISK-VARIANTS
FLOPPY DISK-VARIANTS
FLOPPY DISK-VARIANTS
FLOPPY DISK-VARIANTS
n.
A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
v. t.
To stab with a dirk.
n.
The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
n.
A disk. See Disk.
v. t.
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
a.
Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
a.
Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.
v. t.
To make dusk.
v. t.
To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
n.
A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
n.
The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.
n.
Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
v. t.
To put in a dish, ready for the table.
n.
To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
n.
A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.
v. i.
To grow dusk.
n.
The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
superl.
Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
n.
To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
imp. & p. p.
of Flop