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What's a floppy disk?

by wladimir 16y ago

cfontes 16y ago
Hum... born after 96 ? It was the famous B:\ drive discs, they could keep 1.44Mb of data, yes that stands for Megabytes I had a game called Rex Nebular that was 25 discs :D hahaha it toke forever to install.
- unshift 16y ago
  A: was the 3.5" 1.44MB micro floppy as pictured in the video, B: was the 5.25" mini floppy
  - cfontes 16y ago
    No way. A:\ mostly was for those big square ones that could only fit 750k and were thin like a cardboard.
    - warp 16y ago
      750k? That is a pretty uncommon "big square" disk. (5.25" were 360kB and 1.2MB).
      - Sandman 16y ago
        5.25 DD was 360 KB, and HD was 1.2 MB. However, there were also QD 5.25 disks which held 720 KB. But there were no 750 KB disks. Man, I feel so old right now just for knowing that...
mtrn 16y ago
For those who didn't stumbled upon it yet: http://superuser.com/q/231273/38447 http://superuser.com/q/231273/38447 (What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?)