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It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And it's unlikely to change. Here's why.
To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.
It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.
We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as Sony… ...
Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, [… ...
Floppy Disk Already A Dinosaur September 7, 2004 / 8:35 AM EDT / AP When Michael McCreary bought three new computers for his company, he had no need for one of the oldest and most common computer ...
The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...
His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a lot of hacking, Woz got the first floppy drive to run on what would become ...
A boot disk is a floppy or a CD that you can use to boot your computer into a state in which you can use it to fix a problem. There will be times that your computer may not boot up properly and ...
YouTube video from MrSolidSnake745 with a retro rendition of Daft Punk's "Aerodynamic" and a CD hitting its revolution limit ...
At least one type of floppy disk, the ancient 8-inch introduced by IBM in 1971, seems on the verge of extinction. “There aren’t any left, and we sell the ones we have for $5 [each] in boxes of ...