Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since ... With an 8″ drive hooked up to a PC, how might DOS, or even older Windows versions, interface with it?

In its early days, DOS ran entirely from floppy disks, which modern computers don't have ... Once it happens, DOS sees the USB key as the main bootable hard disk in the computer, and given that DOS ...

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

A disk file that simulates a floppy disk. It is used to duplicate floppies, to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require ...

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 ...

The library provides functions to allow low level work with floppy disks, to read them sector by sector. In addition it incorporates the FatFS library for MS-DOS FAT file-level access, and finally ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to ...