2006-10-29 06:01:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible ("floppy") magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive or FDD, the latter initialism not to be confused with "fixed disk drive", which is an old IBM term for a hard disk drive.
2006-10-29 06:12:57 · answer #1 · answered by manpreet s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
floppy drives are for reading and writing on floppy disks. They are the old type of disks before cd and dvd. They are small square plastic with a disk inside. The older ones were twice as big and thinner, so they were very bendable and they called them "floppies" This was back in the 70s and 80s.
2006-10-29 06:06:32 · answer #2 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A drive on your computer where you insert floppy disks - 3-14" square plastic disks. Most newer computers don't come with floppy drives. We now use CDs and DVDs.
2006-10-29 06:10:42 · answer #3 · answered by LadyDeathStryke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is something that happens to old folks when they get wicked old. It's floppy and they have no drive
2006-10-29 06:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a floppy drive is where you insert the floppy disks
2006-10-29 06:05:12 · answer #5 · answered by Vocany P 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A drive that you insert a disk into -- used to be 5-1/2" disks, then 3-1/4" disks, now CDs or DVD disks.
2006-10-29 06:02:31 · answer #6 · answered by djc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Floppy drive is where you insert your disk into CPU.then all the save information on disk pop out in the screen.
2006-10-29 06:05:48 · answer #7 · answered by jeff 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a slot on the computer designed to take a plastic square w/ a manetic device that stores information in which the computer can read and assimilate.
2006-10-29 06:09:31 · answer #8 · answered by Crossroads Keeper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well she is right..
they used to be around 51/2 inch drives now reduced to 31/4 inches...
these days we use CD andDVD..
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2006-10-29 10:58:01 · answer #9 · answered by ~maverick~ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋