The floppy disk is a technology that is known only to ... It’s also largely platform agnostic – you can record the flux changes, then figure out the format later. [CHZ-Soft] takes this ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives ... take quite a bit of work to figure out. [Shelby] walks us through some of the more common disk formats as well as some real oddballs ...

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 ...

"We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28 ... still relied on paper filing and outdated technology. A charismatic figure with 2.5 million followers on X, Kono formerly headed the defense ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (Reuters) - 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.