Floppy Disks Floppy Disks Floppy disks are cheap and used everywhere. In general they will hold a bit more than 1MB of information. This represents a large number of Word and Excel documents, but can be too small for some images. Floppy disks are prone to damage from dust and dirt or exposure to magnetic fields. They are fairly flimsy and do not like to be bent.
Floppy disks are slow to transfer information.
Please do not insert damaged floppy disks into the lab machines, come and see one of the IT Staff and we will see what we can do. Ejecting a floppy disk differs between Macs and Windows machines. Eventually the Mac will want the ejected floppy back. Windows machines are at their heart DOS machines, and have no mechanical means of ejecting a disk themselves. Push the button below the disk slot to remove a disk physically from the machine.