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2-inch (1989). In 1989, Sony and Panasonic introduced their debut 2-inch floppy drives. They were used in Japanese word processors, camcorders, and most notably the Zenith Minisport laptop. The Sony format could hold 812 KB of data, while the Panasonic format could hold 720 KB.
Floptical, 3.5 inches (1991). This little-known format was developed by Insite Peripherals and used special disks similar to 3.5-inch floppy disks that could hold 21 MB each thanks to optical head tracking technology that greatly increased recording density.
Zip disk (1995). Iomega's 100 MB Zip disk became the alternative standard for floppy disks in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Later models held up to 750 MB of data.
3.5-inch Imation SuperDisk (1996). The latest version of this greece number data format. It had a high data density and a capacity of 120 MB. In 2001, Imation released a 240 MB version. As a bonus, the SuperDisk drive could also read regular 3.5-inch floppy disks.
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store data on their PCs in the 1980s and 1990s, this was reflected in the graphical user interface of programs. The floppy disk icon came to represent the process of saving data to disk. This icon is still used in programs such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft Paint.

This approach is sometimes criticized because many modern computer users have not encountered floppy disks and may not know what they are. It is often joked on the Internet that for the younger generation, a floppy disk is a 3D-printed "Save" icon.