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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1994-06-17  |  8.9 MB  |  320x240  |  10fps  |  1 minute, 22 seconds
Transcription: The floppy drive you see here works with three and a half inch floppy disks. They're the type most often used to carry new programs, save data, or to move files from one PC to another. The part of the disk we see is actually just the hard plastic shell. The working disk, which is inside, is protected by a sliding metal shutter. This thin inner disk, called the cookie, is coated not with chocolate chips, but with a very thin layer of magnetic material. When you slip the disk into your floppy drive, a system of levers pushes back the metal shutter. The levers also pinch two read-write heads clos ...