ENGINEER 1C03 Lecture 12: Engineering Design and Graphics 1C03- reaseach
5 Aug 2016
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The floppy disk drive (fdd) was discovered at ibm in 1967 by a designer named alan shugart. Its main purpose was to store data on one computer which could then be transferred to other computers. The earliest floppy drives used an 8-inch disk compared to the later 5. 25-inch disks called diskette due to its smaller size. The 5. 25-inch disk could store 360 kilobytes of data which was much less than the 1. 44 megabyte capacity of modern 3. 5-inch diskette. The floppy disk drives were later replaced by cd rom drives _____. Fundamentally, a floppy drive reads and writes data to a small, circular piece of metal-coated plastic magnetic disk, the drive can also be called an electromechanical device. The floppy drive consists of four major parts which define the complete mechanism of the drive. The major components are named as the stepper motor, the worm gear, the spur gear and the read/write heads which loads up the data to the disk.
