is a Floppy Disk actually a Floppy Disk if it isn’t Floppy?
8-inch Floppy Disks: The granddaddy of all floppies, introduced in 1971, could only hold 80 KB of data—less than a single email today! These disks were actually floppy, with a flexible surface, and were often used in early mainframe computers.
5.25-inch Floppy Disks: Released in the late 1970s, these classic disks could store 360 KB (single-sided) or up to 1.2 MB (double-sided). Early personal computers, like the Apple II and IBM PCs, didn’t have internal hard drives, so these floppies were essential for storing and running software. Users would often boot their operating system and load programs directly from these disks!
3.5-inch Floppy Disks: The last and most well-known generation, these disks were introduced in 1982 and offered storage capacities up to 1.44 MB. Encased in a hard plastic shell, these “floppies” weren’t actually floppy at all. They became so popular that many computers, even into the 2000s, had floppy disk drives.
Zip Disks: We don’t talk about Zip Disks…
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Introduced in 1994 as a high-capacity alternative to floppy disks, holding 100 MB (later models had 250 MB and 750 MB). Declined in the mid-2000s due to CD-Rs, USB drives, and the availability of cheaper, more reliable storage options. Zip disks were sometimes prone to a notorious error known as the “Click of Death”, where the drive would continuously click and fail to read or write data, making the disk unusable.
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Never knew they had floppies for cameras!! i seen minidisc ones, hi8, vhs-c etc but not that
Pedantic Fact of the Day: "disk" refers to magnetic storage like floppy disks and hard disks, while "disc" refers to optical media like CDs and DVDs.
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Yep. Those make good frisbees
I didn't know about the floppies in cameras! Thanks for sharing!
Honestly I was waiting for you to drop the 8” floppy disc after the 5.25”
I never knew that floppy disk went into cameras
I was so excited when I got my first digital camera. It was similar to the one you show here. 😆
I had a Sony camera and thought is was great using 1.4mb disks. It took fairly decent pictures too.
I am so brainrotten by TIS-3D mod for minecraft that at "1.2 megabytes" I was like "Wow, that's a LOT"
Never saw a floppy drive camera before thats cool