Capacity doubled to 1.44MB with the PS/2 line ... but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS/ED (IBM only) 360KB 5.25" DS/DD 1.2MB ...

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage ...

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 ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

The floppy is dead, and has been for a long ... Their patent for a single-sided disc with a capacity of 80kB had been filed in December 1969, and was granted in June 1972. 8-inch disk drives ...

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk ... but with significantly greater storage capacity. Unlike traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs contain no moving ...