What Is A Floppy Drive?
A floppy disk is a soft magnetic disk. It is called floppy because it flops if you wave it. Unlike most hard disks, floppy disks (often called floppies or diskettes) are portable, because you can remove them from a disk drive. Disk drives for floppy disks are called floppy drives. Floppy disks are slower to access than hard disks and have less storage capacity, but they are much less expensive.
Cliparti: Like cassette recorders, floppy drives read and record the data on a floppy. But in order to use a floppy you have to insert it into the floppy drive. Windy: By the way, have you ever worked on a computer? Fluppy: Well, to be frank, no. Actually, I only played that soccer game last week, which my father started for me. But I have often watched Dad working on it. Cliparti: Never mind, Fluppy. Do you know how to open up a computer? Fluppy: No. Cliparti: Okay! So listen carefully, Fluppy. Do as I say, first of all you press the power button and wait for a while, as the computer will do necessary jobs automatically to start the computer for you. When it stops, it will ask you for a password. Enter the password here or hit the Esc (escape) key situated on the top left of your keyboard. Fluppy: Why a password? Windy: A password is used to ensure that nobody else is able to access the information of your computer without your permission. Cliparti: The first screen that comes is the
A floppy disk drive is an economical, removable storage medium. It uses a magnetic disk. You can record or erase it and then remove it from the computer. You can use the removable disk repeatedly. Today’s floppy is 3.5 inches of square, stiff plastic with a magnetic disk inside. It is called a floppy because the original disk, way back when, was large and floppy like a hound dog’s ear. The term “floppy” is still with us. To read or write to a floppy disk, insert the disk into the floppy disk drive slot on the front of your system box.
