3.5-Inch Floppy Disk - Vintage Data Storage Icon #130342 (License: Personal Use)

This illustration depicts a standard 3.5-inch high-density (HD) floppy disk, featuring a rigid gray plastic shell, a sliding metal shutter to protect the magnetic media, and a writable purple label area. The circular write-protect notch and index hole are visible, reflecting functional design elements critical for compatibility with drives like those in IBM PCs and Apple Macintosh systems. Widely used from the mid-1980s through the early 2000s, it stored up to 1.44 MB of data.

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