A floppy disk, diskette, or floppy diskette (casually known as a floppy or a disk) is a type of disk storage made from a thin, flexible disk coated with a magnetic storage medium.
Introduced by IBM in 1971 and officially a "diskette," it was nicknamed "floppy" because the first varieties were bendable. In the late 1970s, the floppy was the first personal computer storage...
Alternatively called a floppy or floppy disk, a floppy diskette is a storage medium capable of holding electronic data, like a computer file. The floppy diskette was created in 1967 by IBM as an alternative to buying hard drives, which were extremely expensive at the time.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.