Alternatively referred to as a floppy diskwas first created in 1967 by IBM as an alternative to buying hard drives that were extremely expensive at the time . Is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium
Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive
Floppy disks, initially as 8-inch (200 mm) media and later in 5¼-inch (133 mm) and 3½-inch (90 mm) sizes, were a ubiquitous form of data storage and exchange from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s.