Low-cost components developed by Philips and Sony for compact disc recording have been paired with traditional magnetic
floppy disk drive subassemblies.
The typing room has three Apple IIGS's, and we can attach a 3.5"
floppy disk drive to them."
Hard drives hold more information than a
floppy disk drive. The bigger the hard drive, the more information that can be stored and the faster it can be processed.
The controller has a 33 MHz 80386-based CPU with a 3.5" 1.44 MByte
floppy disk drive and a high resolution color monitor.
The package includes an auger-style chip conveyor, programmable coolant nozzle, 16mn program memory, Visual Quick Code programming,
floppy disk drive, spindle orientation, 4th-axis drive, coordinate rotation/scaling, user-definable macros, remote jog handle, and high-speed machining software.
Data storage is provided by PCMCIA interface and a 1.4MB
floppy disk drive. A 100MB zip drive is also provided on the Plus version.
Many students actually have a MIDI keyboard with a
floppy disk drive at home.
Dubbed the 'SUV of Laptops', the FieldGo S1 from Broadbax Systems is a self-contained mobile computer that boasts a 2.8 GHz Intel processor (although other options are available), 2 GB of SDRam and three drive bays for either 7200 or 10,000 rpm hard discs, DVD or DVD-R/RW or CD-R/RW drives, a hard-to-believe-they're-still-around
floppy disk drive and two full-length expansion slots for user-specific requirements.
Last week, Dell announced there's no longer a role to play for the humble 3.5'
floppy disk drive in its high-end PCs.
After the transfer is complete it may be worth attempting to select a saved website from the
floppy disk drive, just to make doubly sure that the save was successful.
It features a 1.67 GHz AMD Athlon processor, 256M of RAM, a massive 80GB hard drive, a CD-RW, DVD drive, and a
floppy disk drive. The PC ships with Windows HP Home Edition and is equipped to handle heavy office productivity or multimedia tasks (www.emachines.com; $649.99).
The CY4616 is a small mobile storage device that can be used to replace a
floppy disk drive for portable storage.