Dimension of a 3.5-inch floppy disk
Dec 19, 2022 · A standard 3.5" floppy disk (ANSI X3.137 or ANSI X3.171 size) is physically 90mm x 94mm x 3.3 mm, with a 85.80 mm diameter magnetic disk in the cartridge. This is the same …
Is there a difference between "floppy disk" and "diskette"?
Nov 11, 2024 · It seems to me like "floppy disk" and "diskette" refer to the same thing, a device with a flat magnetic disk inside a square container, that is really floppy (less on 3"1/2).
floppy disk - How did 512 Bytes come to be the most common …
Dec 15, 2020 · It was long assumed by FS drivers that all diskette and harddisk units operate in blocks of size 512 Bytes. How did this happen to be the case, historically? Why not the …
High-capacity floppy drives from the early 2000s, what were they?
Apr 13, 2024 · The imation LS-120 was released in 1997 and it's successor the LS-240 was released in 2001, the numbers representing the size in megabytes of the disk Unlike with the …
What is the (standardized) weight of a 3.5 inch floppy disk?
Jun 16, 2021 · The short answer / TLDR: One 3.5-inch floppy disk weighs between 15 - 25 grams. The average (mean) weight of one 3.5-inch floppy disk is 18 grams, the median is 17 gram. Of …
Was sector size under software control on the original IBM PC …
Jun 26, 2020 · The original IBM PC used a 5.25" floppy disk format of two sides, 40 tracks, 9 sectors per track, 512 bytes per sector, for 360K per disk. As I understand it, a significant …
ms dos - What physical size and density floppies are the …
Apr 2, 2020 · What physical size and density floppies are the intermediate-capacity options for the /F switch of the DOS/Windows/OS/2 FORMAT command meant for?
history - Why did 3.5" floppies win (and not another size ...
Jan 19, 2019 · One of the first 3.5" floppies I owned was the game Rampage which actually shipped with the game on a 5.25" floppy and a 3.5" floppy. In fact MS-DOS 5.0 which was …
floppy disk - Did personal computers ever support 8" floppies ...
Sep 21, 2018 · When I look at the following picture, it seems a bit awkward to me that personal computers ever supported 8" floppies (unless the size of your computer case was as big as a …
Why did common floppies never advance past 1.4 MB in size?
Jun 19, 2018 · Floppy disk's main advantage was that they were extremely cheap and widely compatible, and breaking that for the sake of a few hundred kilobytes just didn't make sense. …