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Floppy Disks: A Brief History
Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, […] ...
The iconic floppy disk is reborn as a storage case for today's terabyte-packing SD cards From 1.44MB past to terabyte present, the new design bridges eras creatively Fun artwork references glitch ...
Three rows down and four columns over on the iPhone emoji “Objects & Symbols” page is a small black square. It’s to the right of a pager and directly under a CD, perhaps giving more insight into the ...
Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...
Before the floppy disk arrived, computer users had severely limited options for removable storage peripherals. Paper tape found use in loading code but was far from efficient. Magnetic-tape ...
Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...
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Pro Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system? Pro Amazon should retire these 3 hardware storage categories ASAP to stop ...
The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year. Sony, one of a ...
The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year. Sony, one of a ...
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