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Microfloppy Disk

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:48 pm

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Floppy

An old moniker for the small, 3.5-inch floppy disks.

PCs support two types of microfloppies:

double-density microfloppies hold 720K.

high-density microfloppies can store 1.44MB (megabytes).

For Macintosh computers, which have always used microfloppies, there are three sizes:

Single-sided standard microfloppies hold 400K.

Double-sided standard microfloppies hold 800 K.

Double-sided, high-density microfloppies hold 1.44 megabytes.

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