Title
Maxell 3.5-inch floppy disk
Year/Period
2005-2006
Region
Singapore
Object Type
floppy disks
Material
plastic (material), metal
Technique
manufacturing techniques
Dimension
Gross measurement: 9.0 x 9.0 cm,
Object size: 0.3 x 8.8 x 9.1 cm
Object size: 0.3 x 8.8 x 9.1 cm
Accession No.
2022-00045
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Amanda Ting and Family
NLB Type
Cultural artefact
A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It can be read and written using a floppy disk drive. Floppy disks were the almost universal data format from the 1970s into the 1990s, used for primary data storage, backup and data transfers between computers. Floppy disks became increasingly rare in the 2000s and slowly became obsolete.
