The Apple II computer system is notable in that it did not have an index hole sensor and ignored the presence of hard or soft sectoring | from the original on 2014-10-28 |
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Neither of these sizes achieved much market success |
The family of 8-inch disks and drives increased over time and later versions could store up to 1.
28from the original on 2006-05-24 | Inside the cover are two layers of fabric with the magnetic medium sandwiched in the middle |
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The user could drag the image of the floppy drive to the trash can on the desktop to eject the disk | It is also possible to format a disk at a lower density than it was intended for, but only if the disk is first thoroughly demagnetized with a bulk eraser, as the high density format is magnetically stronger and will prevent the disk from working in lower density modes |