The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and then were sold separately starting in 1972 by Memorex and others.
DCL Media & Print has floppy disk supply and can duplicate media onto floppy disks.įloppy disks were so common in late 20th-century culture that many electronic and software programs continue to use save icons that look like floppy disks well into the 21st century. Some individuals and organizations continue to use older equipment to read or transfer data from floppy disks. 5¼-inch, 8-inch, and other-size floppy disks are rare. Subsequently the 5¼-inch and then the 3½-inch became a ubiquitous form of data storage and transfer into the first years of the 21st century.ģ½-inch floppy disks can still be used with an external drives. The first floppy disks, invented and made by IBM, had a disk diameter of 8 inches (203.2 mm). Floppy disks store digital data which can be read and written when the disk is inserted into a floppy disk drive (FDD) connected to or inside a computer or other device. A floppy disk or floppy diskette (sometimes casually referred to as a floppy or diskette) 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 fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
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