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The time has come to bid farewell to one of the PC's more stalwart friends - the floppy disk. Computing superstore PC World said it will no longer sell the storage devices, affectionately known as ...
"Bass sound from Moog" reads one label ... With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as reported by NPR, is looking to ditch the ancient technology of floppy disks and ...
When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo ... metal presses, sound samplers, musical instruments such as pianos and keyboards, and computer floppy drives from the likes ...
Although mechanically sound, the drive had trouble reading disks, and Adrian quickly set out to fix the issue. Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he ...
Floppy disks ... is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s computer piracy.
They may have barely enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, but some people still love using this technology from the 1980s.
The only way to transfer the designs from his computer to the machine was via floppy disk. “We started with eight disks, but four of them stopped working, which made me very uneasy,” he says.