Even finding a floppy disk drive of this size is a difficult task, ... Guess I might as well dump my tape of Ultrix – 11 (DEC Unix). Report comment. Reply. Ecky Thump says: ...

Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or magnetic storage, ... I know 3M mostly for its double sided tape and PPE, never imagined a floppy disk division. Report comment. Reply.

In many ways, the floppy disk thrived in between the worlds of the cassette tape and the CD, offering an early glimpse of what could be possible with the digital experience.

Apr 08, 2024 06:00:00 3M floppy disks were an evolution of adhesive tape technology. In Memoriam: Gilles Péris and Saborit 3M, a chemical company known for products such as adhesives and Post-it ...

The floppy disk, invented and made by IBM in 1967, was once the preferred format for storing files and transferring them between computers – but you'd be lucky to find one being used today.

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive ...

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...

Pro US Government says it will save $1m/year by getting rid of magnetic tape ... “We have won the war on floppy disks" — Japanese government says it has finally eradicated ancient hardware.

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.. Within the government, Mr ...

It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And it's unlikely to change. Here's why.