Back in the early years of the personal computer, “FloppyData” may not have been recognizable by itself. But looking back on ...

Since their appearance on the market as 8-inch floppies in the early ’70s, floppy disks have long been established as an indispensable tool for carrying data and distributing software. However, ...

Things got even more interesting when the floppy disk dropped in size to 5.25 inches and 360 KB of data and started to help with application installation during the days of MS-DOS and the start of ...

When it was released to the public in 1971, the 8-inch floppy disk offered a storage capacity of 80 kilobytes. This might sound tiny (right now, the Word document for this article is sitting at 21 KB) ...

You can connect your V4 to any floppy drive implementing a Shugart interface: Old PC 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch drives are a good choice, or an Amstrad 3-inch drive for Amstrad CPC and Spectrum +3 disks.

Floppy Terminology Head/Side - Initially, floppy disks were single sided, meaning they possessed a single read/write head that would read the diskette from the bottom side of the disk when inserted.

13. Lhasa Apso Hailing from the Himalayas in Tibet, the Lhasa apso is a small dog breed with floppy ears that has been around for at least a thousand years. Standing 10 to 11 inches tall and weighing ...

San Francisco uses floppy disks in its train control system, and the US Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS) also relied on 8-inch floppy disks until 2019.