A Virtual Floppy Disk is a disk image stored as a file on your computer’s hard drive. It is a substitute to the traditional floppy drive, with the exception that it exists as a file rather than ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern ...

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we ...

These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft ... You absolutely could not expect a floppy disk from one type of computer to work in ...

and the floppy disk icon still appears on many computer desktops as the file-saving symbol. But as obsolete as its technology may seem, the floppy disk is still used today. For example ...

“I started with making MIDI music files, which are so little that it was easy to store them on floppy disks,” says Nobuko. “This was [my] first time… using floppies. Later I started to use ...

Floppy disks were first introduced over 50 years ago, and the largest capacity commonly available disks would hold just 1.44MB of files. This might still be sufficient for simple textual data ...

I used to hand my work to the editor on a 3.5in disk. I can’t remember exactly when I last saved a file onto a floppy, but it’s unlikely to have been this century. Yet, amazingly, these ...

Coonrod inserts a 3.5-inch floppy disk—which can hold 1.44 MB of data ... style text crawl that shows the computer extracting .CEC files from a self-extracting file called EGREEN23.EXE that ...

After more than 50 years since the first one was made, Japan has officially killed off the iconic floppy disk. According to reports, the Japanese government has scrapped all 1,034 regulations ...