IBM was the first to introduce the 8"
floppy disk in 1971, with a 5.25" disk released in 1976 by Wang Laboratories, developed by Alan Shugart, and a 3.5" version introduced by Sony in 1981.
The use of FTP eliminates the need to use unreliable
floppy disks, a fact that cannot be overemphasized.
In schools where computers are used regularly, it is essential to have a cache of
floppy disks.
Students enjoy creating their electronic portfolios and a single
floppy disk can easily hold 100 pages of text and a dozen graphic images (provided they were saved in lower resolution in GIF or JPG format).
Rightclick the
floppy disk drive, and then click <Format> on the shortcut menu.
These are not specific to an operating system and spread with ease via e-mail attachments,
floppy disks, Web downloads, file transfers and general use applications.
After replying with a polite but emphatic no, The Western Mail's Swansea-based snapper was left in a state of limbo when he was advised that his name had been found on an encrypted
floppy disk inside.
He is admired, acclaimed even, for the chameleon-like effortlessness with which he crosses from artistic medium to artistic medium, constantly changing his creative "
floppy disk," as he describes it, and keeping audiences perpetually on their toes.
Clearly, the conventional
floppy disk with its tiny 1.44-megabyte (Mb) capacity has become an anachronism.
Here to answer your computer questions is Why Doesn't My
Floppy Disk Flop?
All textbooks are programmed into computers, and you take your assignments home on a
floppy disk. The dog can't eat that homework!
A
floppy disk, usually just called a disk, is a thin plate of flexible (floppy) plastic that is coated with a layer of magnetic material.