IBM offered an extra-high density 2.88MB drive on selected PCs that was backward compatible, but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS ...

with a central hole for the drive's spindle. The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the 5.25-inch floppy disk, which was then overtaken by the 3.5-inch floppy disk in the 1980s and 1990s.

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs ... from years of constant writing by different drives, this may sometimes fix a disk. In this case one of the bad disks was fixed, while ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip disk and Floptical. (2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk developed by IBM and available on certain IBM PCs. With a 2.88MB capacity ...

We remember the floppy ... a floppy disk as its storage medium. It came about with the realization that half an hour of extremely compressed audio could be squeezed onto a standard 3.5 inch ...