Apple FileWare
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FileWare floppy disk drives and diskettes were designed by Apple Computer as a higher-performance alternative to the Disk II and Disk III floppy systems used on the Apple II and Apple III personal com
Fileware diskette
History of the floppy disk
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A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive. Floppy disks
Apple FileWare
…that of standard drives, though conceptually similar to that of the Disk II. The FileWare diskette has the same overall jacket dimensions of a normal 5¼ inch diskette, but because of the head arrangement, the jacket has non-standard cutouts for the heads, with two sets of cutouts on opposite sides of the spindle hole…
8-inch disk drive with diskette; 3½-inch disk for comparison.
A double-density 5¼-inch disk with a partly exposed magnetic medium spun about a central hub. The cover has a cloth liner to brush dust from the medium. Note the “write-enable slot” to the upper right and the hole next to the hub that gives access to the index hole in the disk.
White 5¼-inch floppy disk