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Format versus protected floppy disk7/10/2023 ![]() This may be a nuisance for data archivists and computer archeologists however standardization can also hamper the perfection of a product or idea.Ī diskette is divided in tracks radially and sectors angularly. The following is mainly meant to illustrate the lack of standardization in the early use of this medium, a situation which remained until the latter days of the third (3.5") generation of floppy disks. The Telefunken disk was grooved like a gramophone record, and was not permanently enclosed in a jacket like the floppy disk. The 8" floppy disk (diskette) - the progenitor of this family of flexible magnetic media - was introduced by IBM in the late 1960's, inspired by the flexible, self-centering magnetic disk used by Telefunken in its dictation recorder. ![]()
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