How Old School Floppy Drives Worked

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Explains how floppy drives work: stepper-driven heads, index holes, magnetic encoding and why disks fail, with drives opened on camera.

What you'll learn

How old floppy disk drives worked.

Engineering History

Video by The 8-Bit Guy, played through YouTube's embedded player.

Part of How Old School Computers and Games Work.

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