Diskette

A sliding metal cover protects the delicate magnetic surface when the diskette is not in use and automatically opens when the diskette is inserted into the computer.

Small protrusions, indentations, and cutouts, prevent the diskette from being inserted backward or upside down: of the eight ways one might try to insert the diskette, only one is correct, and only that one will fit.

A jack-of-all-tech-trades, Willems put the 5.25-inch black plastic diskette into his PC.

A blank unformatted diskette has a coating of magnetic oxide with no magnetic order to the particles.

Adding the DMA chip improved the speed of diskette operations and IBM PC-compatibility of these earlier Tandy 1000 models and ensured that input from a serial port or keyboard would not be ignored during floppy drive access.

A special "reference diskette" was inserted in an IBM AT to configure settings such as memory size.

Decompiling Its FORTH was adapted to the disk-less tape-using home computer hardware being able to save/load user compiled vocabularies instead of the usual numbered programming blocks used by diskette systems.

Parodies * An episode of Dexter's Laboratory has Dee Dee win a Golden Diskette to win a trip to tour Professor Hawk's factory, similar to what happens in the book.

The BDOS handled some of the buffering of data from the diskette, but before CP/M 3.0 it assumed a disk sector size fixed at 128 bytes, as used on single-density 8-inch floppy disks.

The largest 8-inch diskette formats could contain more than a megabyte, and the capacities of those devices were often irregularly specified in megabytes, also without controversy.

The last widely adopted diskette was the 3½-inch high density.

The LNDoubler added the ability to read and write from 5¼" diskette drives for over 1.2 Mb of storage.

The same type of physical diskette media could be used for both drives, but a disk formatted for double-sided use could not be read on a single-sided drive.