It wasn’t always this way, and it was much more confusing; back in the day when we had floppy drives. We had floptical drives. A single unlabeled 3.5″ floppy disk could be formatted as 360 ...

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010 ... what are the chances of a box of used FDs — whether DD or HD format — still working in 2023?

Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS/ED (IBM only) 360KB 5.25" DS/DD 1.2MB 5.25" DS/HD DS = double sided DD = double density HD = high density ED = extra=high ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...