If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you ...

in 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch sizes. The first floppy drive in a Windows computer had the drive letter “A:” and the second the drive letter “B:”. When the first built-in hard disks arrived ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

Computers of the 1950s and 1960s had typically been room-sized machines, and even though by the end of the ’60s a typical minicomputer had shrunk to the size ... with a floppy drive installed ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require one. Utility programs such as Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) can be used to ...