I can do math in my head (a skill honed, in particular, by the need to calculate file sizes limited by the capacity of a floppy disk), and I still have pretty good handwriting, although I increasingly ...

It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And ...

In an era of cloud storage, AI copilots, and real-time GPS updates on your phone, it sounds absurd that some commercial airplanes still rely on floppy disks—yes, those 3.5-inch plastic squares ...

To this day, HDDs as well as the seemingly dead floppy disk use magnets to store data. Solid state drives (SSD), on the other hand, use electricity for storage and have become a popular ...

Amstrad uses Matsushita's 3" floppy disk drive [ref: CPCWiki], which was comptible with Hitachi's existing 3" floppy disk format. The chosen drive (built-in for later models) is a single-sided ...

Fact checked by Sarah Scott Anyone who grew up in the ‘90s will tell you that it was a pretty great time to be a teenager. The internet existed but wasn’t a part of everyday life. Fashion was fun, ...

Apple II used two disk image formats for 5.25-inch floppy disks: ... ATAPI is a packetized version of ATA that is mostly used for optical drives such as CD//DVD-ROM and Blu-Ray.

New storage systems, coupled with a need to store more than the 1.44 megabytes of data held by a standard floppy, have led to its demise. Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy ...

Ensuring the floppy drive connections are secure can resolve communication issues that might cause the FLOPPY_INTERNAL_ERROR. This is particularly useful if cables were loose or improperly connected.

Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone ...

The Afghanistan mission is now history. A new tender suggests that the country now has to be defended on drive A:. Because without floppy disks, the F123 class frigates are not going anywhere.

The DoD's floppy disks were finally phased out in 2019 and replaced with secure solid-state drives, though some have noted the added security older hardware provides.