For many of us the passing of the floppy ... and HD drives. We can see that it will be extremely useful to anyone working with retrocomputer software who is trying to retrieve old disks, and ...

8-inch disk drives were produced by IBM and ... showing an automated production line for 3.5″ floppy disks. We see all the constituent parts including tiny pieces such as the write-protect ...

Then, in 1976, a guy named Steve Wozniak wanted to add a floppy drive to his next ... $1,000 worth of PC parts into a tech giant From then on, the floppy disk took off. With the ability to ...

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk ... Unlike traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs contain no moving parts, making them small, lightweight, and highly ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

Dell Computer said Wednesday it will stop putting the drives in its desktop computers next month and offer them only as an option. Newer storage devices can hold far more data, at a competitive ...