The floppy disk era ended with the 3.5-inch disk being ... For many people, this storage space was their first introduction ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

This was a poor solution to the paltry storage capacity of floppies in the early 1980s, because the disk's rotation was alternated. See floppy disk. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.