In this episode of [Adrian’s Digital Basement], we dive into the world of retro computing with a focus on diagnosing and repairing an old full-height 5.25-inch floppy drive from an IBM 5150 s… ...

The earliest, 8-inch models (80KB capacity) arrived in the 1970s and were popular among enterprise users, with 5.25-inch (360 KB double sided) designs the common format for home computers at the time.

Oh, the exciting life I've led! In either case, it would have been a single-sided, 8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data.

Floppy disks (FDs), magnetic disks that record information on personal computers, were widely used mainly from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. Programmer Jonathan Palant explains about such FD. JP's ...

Despite Sony having made the last new one in 2011, floppy disks refuse to fade away entirely. ... (360 KB double-sided) designs the common format for home computers at the time.

The first double-sided double-density 5¼-inch floppies with a marketed capacity of 360KB were launched in 1978. Nvidia’s Perfusion model is just 100KB, taking up less than 30% of the space ...