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No desktop computer or laptop comes today with a physical Floppy Drive, but several free tools can help you create a virtual floppy disk on Windows 10/8/7. Here are some of them that you can use ...
Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...
A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage flight. Here's why.
We'll show you how to create a Windows 7 password reset disk. Ed Rhee. Ed Rhee, ... Step 1: Insert a USB flash drive into your computer (or a floppy disk if you're stuck in the Stone Age).
Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers.
Tom's shop in Lake Forest is a time machine, filled with tens of thousands of those flat, square disks you really can't find anywhere anymore. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are.
SFMTA's train system in San Francisco is not only relying on humans to run it, but turns out that a floppy disk has been playing a key role for decades. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay ...
The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from 5.25-inch floppy disks, with upgrades not expected until 2030 due to ...
Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy.
The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from 5.25-inch floppy disks, with upgrades not expected until 2030 due to ...