In this episode of [Adrian’s Digital Basement], we dive into the world of retro computing with a focus on diagnosing and repairing an old full-height 5.25-inch floppy drive from an IBM 5150 s… ...

This floppy disk replica has a 3D structure with a soft-touch feel. ... Double-sided tape. Craft knife. USB-C cable. 1mm, 3mm, and 5mm white PVC foam board (also known as Sunboard) ...

Oh, the exciting life I've led! In either case, it would have been a single-sided, 8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data.

Probably a silly question, but how can you tell if a 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive is 40 or 80 track ? ... like the fourth dimension drive. The IBM pc had 40 track double sided drives.

Despite Sony having made the last new one in 2011, floppy disks refuse to fade away entirely. ... (360 KB double-sided) designs the common format for home computers at the time.

The earliest, 8-inch models (80KB capacity) arrived in the 1970s and were popular among enterprise users, with 5.25-inch (360 KB double sided) designs the common format for home computers at the time.

The warehouse also holds 8-inch floppy disks — an even older storage medium — including one labeled as containing the 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon US presidential debate.

Floppy disks (FDs), magnetic disks that record information on personal computers, were widely used mainly from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. Programmer Jonathan Palant explains about such FD. JP's ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still using old floppy disks to run its trains. Moreover, it could take as much as 10 years to upgrade the current 26-year-old system.

Japan isn’t the only nation that has struggled to phase out the outdated technology — the U.S. Defense Department only announced in 2019 that it has ended the use of floppy disks, which were ...