A high-density disk is defined as a high-quality floppy disk capable of holding more data than a double-density disk. High-density disks are 3.5-inch disks that can store up to 1.44MB of data. By comparison, a double-density 3.5 inch disk can hold 720K...

A small, flat magnetic storage device that can easily be transported or...

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 initials of...

Say good-bye to 3.5-in. disk shortage Capsule view. Led by continued growth in 3.5-in. floppy disk sales and stabilization in the popularity of 5.25-in. floppy disks, the U.S. computer media industry is strong and will show significant growth through 1990. The U.S....

Kao folds FD manufacturing in the U.S., but the diskette is not dead yet. Recent industry news about data storage media has covered a variety of new and developing formats competing to be the medium of choice for data and software distribution....

A Navy investigator testified Wednesday that a computer disk seized from the brother of a Chinese-born engineer accused of stealing U.S. defense technology secrets contained encrypted files.Nicholas Mikus, an investigative computer specialist for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said the files could only be unlocked...

Major computer viruses over the last 25 years:ELK CLONER, 1982: Regarded as the first virus to hit personal computers worldwide, "Elk Cloner" spread through Apple II floppy disks and displayed a poem written by its author, a ninth-grade student who was designing a practical joke.BRAIN,...