The HD floppy is to formatted 1.44MB, not 1.2MB, and unformatted capacity was 2.0MB.
People did not program word processors themselves as they didn't exist, typewriters did.
Later, pre disk, magazines type-ins and software on (magnetic) tapes were common means of software distribution.
How to tell me your under 30 without telling me you're under 30 :D
That's funny. I had to laugh that off.
Now the type in magazines at the time were amazing - especially with error checking "co-routines" to make sure you did it right. But there were bugs in printed material that a month or two later you could fix from the errors section. Best use case of a subscription model assuming you didn't want to fix it yourself or redo it all etc... Also as a side to that there was a barcode scanner for the code for a few publications.
Fun times.
Inside a hard disc drive, there are aluminum or glass discs.
Everything is relative. Relative to 8 inch floppies, 5.25 inch ones aren’t very floppy. 8 inch ones visually bend under their own weight.
In the meanwhile, I'll have your geek card. Thx!
[1] 2 sides / disk * 18 tracks / side * 80 sectors / track * 512 bytes / sector = 1,474,560 bytes = 1440 * 1024 bytes
The unformatted capacity isn't measured in MB. A floppy is analog media.
The controller deals with an analog signal from/to the floppy drive, which in turn is translated with the floppy's surface itself through the drive's header.
There's a variety of physical formats by which to coerce data into tracks.