That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 ... and new storage formats like USB flash drives and memory cards emerged, the floppy disk's reign waned in the mid-to-late 1990s.

in 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch sizes. The first floppy drive in a Windows computer had the drive letter “A:” and the second the drive letter “B:”. When the first built-in hard disks arrived ...

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 ...

(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 ...

to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require one. Utility programs such as Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) can be used to ...

A dude named Paweł Zadrożniak has created what he calls ‘The Floppotron,’ a contraption that plays music using sixty-four floppy drive discs*. What kind of music, you ask? Well, for example… John ...