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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1997-10-02  |  12.9 MB  |  240x180  |  15fps  |  1 minute, 45 seconds
Transcription: The floppy disk is a thin circular piece of mylar plastic coated with the same metal oxide used on VCR and cassette tapes. This plastic is sandwiched between two paper liners which keep the plastic clean. This is encased in an outer shell. The 5 1-1 1-4 inch has a soft plastic while the 3 1-1 1-2 inch disk has a hard plastic shell. The 5 1-1 1-4 inch disk has an exposed read-write slot. This is where the disk drives read-write heads, reads the information from the disk. Here is the write-protect notch, which when activated, prevents your PC from writing to the disk. If you put a piece of opaqu ...