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Posted by: spgautam ® 06/26/2005, 13:26:54 Author Profile Mail author Edit |
can any one of you tell me why shape of floppy is taken rectangular while cd is circular .(please don't tell that floppy drive is rectangular and cd drive is circular) |
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Posted by: kvkmurty ® 06/26/2005, 15:07:44 Author Profile Mail author Edit |
Well, shape of a magnetic floppy disc inside the rectangular casing is still circular. I don't know why the floppy casing is rectangular. Probably someone made it that way first! All the computer data storage devices are circular because they rotate while storing data. I do not have a good idea about USB devices though! |
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Posted by: randykimball ®  06/26/2005, 21:51:47 Author Profile Mail author Edit |
Well, let's see, it needed a place for a write protect window,...The reader shutter needed to have a place to open to. It needed to slide in and out of a reader drive, it was the child of the 5.5" floppy, square and a true floppy as limp as a magazine... at the time it was quite an advancement. VCR's took rectangle packages, memory tapes came in rectangle casettes, 8 tracks had been rectangles... Computers were new to a desktop.. square was a natural shape and the new plastic container protected the easy to damage disk inside (better than it had the true floppy (5.5"). ... At the time floppy drives were not cheap... millions had not been sold to bring the cost down... Apple Computers would eject them like toast in a toaster.. toast is square.. a new thing... they were the rage... then the double denisity came out with an amazing 1.4 meg of storage... we were used to placing the square 5.5" floppies in racks and the 3.5" simply fit in a smaller rack and held many more bytes. ...plus it gave the drive a way to eject them safely. .... and best of all, #1 reason, your answer, to fit in a shirt pocket nicely! ....why not? ...it worked very well..
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