8-inch disk drives were produced by IBM and other manufacturers in ... to mind — sounded the death-knell for the floppy. If you bought a computer with a floppy drive installed after about ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer ... like a 1995 IBM Aptiva. While the whole build is impressive, the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that ...

See Zip disk and Floptical. (2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk developed by IBM and available on certain IBM PCs. With a 2.88MB capacity, the Extra High Density (ED) floppy drives were compatible ...

While the first computer virus (Creeper ... copying the medical software they wrote. It targeted IBM PCs and would replace a floppy disk's boot sector with a copy of the virus and flag the ...

The first full-stealth computer virus ... Aimed at the IBM PC, the Brain virus only slowed down the floppy disk drive and did no other damage. By replacing the boot sector in the floppy disk ...

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage ...

It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on ... become a symbol of data storage, and the floppy disk icon still appears on many computer desktops as the file-saving symbol.