This is a list of different
floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a ...
formats.
Physical formats
Logical formats
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, many different logical disk formats were used, depending on the hardware platform.
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See also
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Zip drive
The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities ...
(floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology)
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PocketZip
The PocketZip is a medium-capacity floppy disk storage system introduced by Iomega in 1999. It uses very small 54.5mm x 50.2mm x 2.0mm 40 MB disks. It was originally known as the "Clik!" drive until the click of death class action lawsuit ...
(floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology)
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SuperDisk
The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 Megabyte, MB floppy disk. The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M's storage products group Imation in 1996, with manufacturing chiefly ...
(floppy-like with drives also compatible with 3.5" floppy disks)
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Magneto-optical drive
A magneto-optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto-optical disc. 130 mm (5.25 in) and 90 mm (3.5 in) discs are the most common sizes.
In 1983, just a year after t ...
(floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology)
Notes
References
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External links
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Floppy Disk Formatsat the Museum of Obsolete Media
Legacy hardware
Floppy disk computer storage