Labels:book | dialog box | hakham | window OCR: Meet the Mac The Floppy Disk Drive It's hard to imagine today but floppy disks used to be the Mac's primary storage device. With the first Mac just saving document could require minute and half -dozen disk swaps. Fortunately, hard disk drives have long- -since transformed floppies into medium for backups and software distribution A floppy disk contains a circle of flexible, or floppy plastic both sides of which are coated with micro- scopic iron oxide particles. Each side of the disk divided into invisible areas called tracks, which are concentric circles; and sectors, which are wedge shaped divisions within each track How Floppies Work The Mac's SuperDrive floppy drive supports several floppy disk formats: 400K (the original Mac floppy format), 800K (double sided), aad 1.4MB (high den- si ...
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