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A floppy disk is a removable storage device that was used to save and transfer computer files before modern alternatives like USB drives and cloud storage became common. It matters historically because it was the standard way people stored and shared data with computers for several decades.
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- Subclass of
- magnetic storage
- Material used
- iron(II,III) oxide
- Developer
- IBM
- Image
- Floppy disk 2009 G1.jpg
- Connects with
- floppy disk drive
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- has characteristic
- removable media
- Unicode character
- 🖬
- Commons category
- Floppy disks
- Commons gallery
- Diskette
- uses
- magnetism
- storage capacity
- 1440
- inception
- 1964-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- P13411
- Wales
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