For people under a certain age, the 8 inch floppy disk is a historical curiosity. They might just have owned a PC that had a 5.25 inch disk drive, but the image conjured by the phrase “floppy ...

The PC was widely fitted with either 5.25″ or 3.5″ disk drives, but other formats such as the older 8″ discs were not a fixture in the 16-bit desktop computing world.

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the 5.25-inch floppy disk, which was then overtaken by the 3.5-inch floppy disk in the 1980s and 1990s.

Toshiba Corp. will begin mass-producing a 60G-byte, 1.8-inch hard-disk drive before the end of the year, it said Wednesday. Such drives are commonly used in digital music players and sub-notebook ...

The US military has finally ended the use of 8-inch floppy disks for coordinating the country’s nuclear forces. As of this June, the USA’s SACCS now uses a “highly secure solid state digital ...

The German Navy is working on modernizing its Brandenburg-class F123 frigates, which means ending their reliance on 8-inch floppy disks.. The F123 frigates use floppy disks for their onboard data ...

I have two Samsung 1.8-in. USB disk drives that I use to back up all my work. They have a capacity of 250 GB. I kept one in the safe-deposit box and rotated it with the other one about once a month.

The floppy disk era ended with the 3.5-inch disk being the last hoorah for this beloved era of computing. Capable of holding memory in sizes from 720 KB to 1.44 MB, ...

The 8-inch floppy disk drive was invented by IBM in the late 1960s as a replacement for punch cards. The disks were hailed as a breakthrough in storage , capable of holding the same information as ...

Early Macs used a proprietary floppy disk format, and once a Mac 3.5-inch disk was create,d it couldn't be read on the IBM PC standard. This made file transfers between the two types of computers ...

That's the world's largest capacity 1.8-inch hard disk drive right there. A claim met by a list of specs going a little something like this: 3.0Gbps SATA interface, 320GB capacity, 5,400 RPM, 16MB ...

There are three main sizes of FD: 8 inches, 5.25 inches, and 3.5 inches. In addition to this, ... from an early 8-inch disk that could store about 1594 bits per inch.