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Only 14% of K-5th graders knew what the Save icon was! (And yes, we showed them a picture.) – From an infographic assembled for National Library Week by TeachHub.com and the Clever Girls Collective from a survey of 1,000 youngsters

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  • Floppy disk
    A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
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    Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into the 1990s, used for primary data storage as well as for backup and data transfers between computers. In 1967, at an IBM facility in San Jose, California, work began on a drive that led to the world's first floppy disk and disk drive. [1]
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    floppy disk, magnetic storage medium used with late 20th-century computers. Floppy disks were popular from the 1970s until the late 1990s, when they were supplanted by the increasing use of e-mail attachments and other means to transfer files from computer to computer.
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  • Floppy Disk Explained: Everything You Need to Know
    A floppy disk or floppy diskette is a storage device created to hold electronic data. IBM created the first floppy disk in 1967. This was made as an alternative to hard drives since they were extremely pricey at the time.
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    Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data. All the software and programmes...
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