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Floppy disks typically in diameter __________.

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3
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5.25
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8
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All of above
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The correct option is D All of above

Floppy disks typically in diameter 3, 5.25 and 8.

In the late 80's, the 5.25-inch floppy disk was on its way out and in 1987 the 3.5-inch floppy disk had moved into the high density category with a capacity of 1.44 MB. You would need 711 1.44 MB floppy disks to equal 1 Gigabyte.

What became the most common format, the double-sided, high-density (HD) 1.44 MB disk drive, shipped in 1986. The first Macintosh computers used single-sided 3½-inch floppy disks, but with 400 KB formatted capacity. These were followed in 1986 by double-sided 800 KB floppies.

The first floppy disk - which was 8in - was developed by IBM in the late 1960s to replace tape drives. ... A USB memory stick can store 1,000 times as much as a floppy disk. The increasing availability of broadband and wireless internet connections has rendered small-scale removable storage devices largely obsolete.


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