Parts of a Diskette

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Tip 1 - Parts of a Diskette | eHow

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Lee Yen | permalink

Diskettes were the primary medium for computer data storage from the 1980s until the early 2000s. Due to their limited capacity and some reliability issues, they were eventually replaced by CD, DVD, and flash memory storage.

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Tip 2 - Parts of a Floppy Disk Drive - How Floppy Disk Drives Work

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by sumit max | permalink

Parts of a Floppy Disk Drive - Floppy disk drives have been around since the birth of personal computing -- find out how they work!
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