Inside Your Computer
Alternative Storage Solution
Better Known AS
Often referred to as a diskette, the floppy has been around since the beginning of the computer age. Very convenient way to store small amounts (1.44mb) data will fit in your shirt pocket. Comes in two sizes 5.25 inches and the more popular 3.5 inch disk.
Created by Iomega, the zip disk is basically the next generation of floppy (type) diskette. Uses a small device known as a Zip Drive that fits inside or attaches to your computer. Comes in two sizes zip 100mb and zip 250mb. One zip 100mb disk has the capacity of one hundred 3.5 inch diskettes.
The CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only Memory) has revolutionized storage. Today, many computers have special drives allowing people to play CD-ROMs. A CD-ROM can hold obscene amounts of data, a whole volume of encyclopedias can easily fit on one disc.
Technology has advance to the point that people can create their own CD-ROMs (called CD-R's and CD-RW's).
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