13 thoughts on “ Flux Is Your Friend For Archiving Old Floppy Disks ” Zoe Nagy says: February 29, ... but how can you tell if a 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive is 40 or 80 track ?

“If you built a plane 20 or 30 or even 40 years ago, you would use a floppy disk to get information in and out of some of the avionics of that airplane,” said 73-year-old Persky.

The game has a number of floppy-disk-specific features compared to the arcade classic, though. First, there’s no mallet, so the player must push the floppy disks into the drive manually. Second ...

Old floppy disks are also useful for retro PC enthusiasts. It’s possible to upgrade most retro PCs to bypass the need for floppies, but until you make that upgrade, a 3.5-inch floppy remains the ...

"These are people who use floppy disks as a way to get information in and out of a machine. Imagine it's 1990, and you're building a big industrial machine of one kind or another.

When you think about retro music formats, floppy disks may not immediately be top of mind. They're not as culturally iconic as cassette and CD players or as elegant as old-school vinyl. But for a ...

He even reports that "Probably half of the airfleet in the world today is more than 20 years old and still uses floppy disks in some of the avionics." The US Air Force only stopped using floppy ...

How to use Floppy Disk Drive on Windows 11/10. If you have an old physical Floppy Drive that you can attach to your device, then you will need to download the latest driver from the Windows Update ...

In the days before memory sticks and google drive, a floppy disk was the only way to save your work. Even though they've now become obsolete, they're still recognisable as the save icon used by ...

There are also basic concerns around the old storage format, such as Tokyo police reportedly losing a pair of floppy disks with information on dozens of public housing applicants in 2021.