A Floppy disk is a type of storage.
 Read/write floppy disks and their drives became available in 1972, but it was IBM's 1973 introduction of the 3740 data entry system that began the establishment of floppy disks, called by IBM the Diskette 1, as an industry standard for information interchange
 Generally, the same drives are used to read and write both types of disks, with only the disks and controllers differing

