What is Floppy Disk?
A floppy disk is a magnetic storage device that can store data persistently. To read or write data from/to floppy disk, floppy drive is required. The floppy disk is composed of a thin, flexible magnetic disk sealed in a square plastic carrier. A floppy disk also known as floppy.
The first floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, which is 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter, they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and then were sold separately beginning in 1972 by Memorex and others. These disks and associated drives were produced and improved upon by IBM and other companies such as Memorex, Shugart Associates, and Burroughs Corporation. The term "floppy disk" appeared in print as early as 1970, and although in 1973 IBM announced its first media as "Type 1 Diskette" the industry continued to use the terms "floppy disk" or "floppy.
When a floppy disk is required?
In early days, when hard drives were still very expensive, floppy disks were also used to store the operating system of a computer.
But in 1990's, other storage media such as hard disk, zip drives, optical drives replaces the floppy disk.
How data is stored in floppy disk?
A floppy disk is a magnetic media and stores and reads data on the floppy disk using a read head. With a 3.5" floppy diskette when it is inserted into the drive the metal slide door is opened and exposes the magnetic disk within the floppy diskette. The read/write head uses a magnetic polarity of 0 or 1. Reading this as binary data, the computer can understand what the data is on the platter. For the computer to write information to the platter, the read/write head aligns the magnetic polarities, writing 0's and 1's that can be read later.
A floppy disk is a magnetic storage device that can store data persistently. To read or write data from/to floppy disk, floppy drive is required. The floppy disk is composed of a thin, flexible magnetic disk sealed in a square plastic carrier. A floppy disk also known as floppy.
The first floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, which is 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter, they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and then were sold separately beginning in 1972 by Memorex and others. These disks and associated drives were produced and improved upon by IBM and other companies such as Memorex, Shugart Associates, and Burroughs Corporation. The term "floppy disk" appeared in print as early as 1970, and although in 1973 IBM announced its first media as "Type 1 Diskette" the industry continued to use the terms "floppy disk" or "floppy.
When a floppy disk is required?
In early days, when hard drives were still very expensive, floppy disks were also used to store the operating system of a computer.
But in 1990's, other storage media such as hard disk, zip drives, optical drives replaces the floppy disk.
How data is stored in floppy disk?
A floppy disk is a magnetic media and stores and reads data on the floppy disk using a read head. With a 3.5" floppy diskette when it is inserted into the drive the metal slide door is opened and exposes the magnetic disk within the floppy diskette. The read/write head uses a magnetic polarity of 0 or 1. Reading this as binary data, the computer can understand what the data is on the platter. For the computer to write information to the platter, the read/write head aligns the magnetic polarities, writing 0's and 1's that can be read later.
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