The floppy disk era ended with the 3.5-inch disk being the last hoorah for this ... Ultimately, even today, this type of storage offers you enough space to hit hundreds of gigabytes (GB) or ...

The F123s were first put into service in the 1990s. Even then, 8-inch floppies were passé. Those disks initially had 80 kilobytes of storage space, and were introduced in 1971 as an alternative ...

Disk space analyzer apps let you inspect the storage devices connected to your Mac, and take a look at what they contain. Some of these utilities are simple viewers, which display drive contents ...

It’s worth remembering – the 3.5″ microfloppy disk, is in fact a 9cm floppy disk! There’s a 1mm difference and the real value is 9cm, which makes sense as it was developed by Sony, which ...

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.

Way back in ancient times, i.e. the '70s and '80s, the floppy disk was a major player in the world of digital storage. And you might be surprised to learn just how prominent the format still is in ...

You absolutely could not expect a floppy disk from one type of computer to work ... Oh the wonders of all that storage space on a 720kb floppy, and then the mindblowing excess of the 1.44Mb ...

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 ...

While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to the person who claims to be "last man standing in the floppy disk business." ...

As a storage medium, floppy disk technology dates back over 50 years. Sony introduced 3.5-inch floppy disks in 1983, and they typically store a mere 1.44 megabytes of data in their most popular ...

Those disks initially had 80 kilobytes of storage space, and were introduced in 1971 as an alternative to the punch cards used in large mainframe computers. Later versions offered 1.2 megabytes of ...