In this engaging #shorts video, we explore the intriguing story behind the classic floppy disk and its potential for revival. Can this nostalgic piece of tech be saved or find a new purpose in today's ...

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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 ...

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we ...

As any other standard MSX floppy disk controller, this ROM implements the "phantom drive" feature by allocating two drive letters for the FDD and prompting the user to change the disk and press any ...

It’s a complex bit of disk engineering that allowed this trick to work, and [Rob] explains it in great detail. We love nitty gritty storage hacks around here. Video after the break.

Even then, 8-inch floppies were passé. 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.

The floppy disk, invented in the 1970s, was once a ubiquitous part of computing. Other forms of memory like flash drives and internet cloud storage have since taken over.

Floppy was used in the 1990s Yes, we are talking about Floppy Disk in 2024. This output storage technology was used in various parts of the world- from America to India in the 1990s.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.