Data storage mechanisms have come a long way since IBM proudly introduced the first "memory disk" in 1971. By the end of the '70s, a number of manufacturers were churning out 5.25-in. floppy disks.

Just to let you know you can use a GOTEK drive and install the “floppy disk ” firmware to replace your floppy drives and I uses the standard 34 pin cable to be accessed except the “floppy is ...

It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And ...

It wasn’t until the 1571 that a proper, non-broked floppy drive came out – in my opinion. Unfortunately, it needed a C128 to run at full i/o speed. The C128D was a great experience, thus.

His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a lot of hacking, Woz got the first floppy drive to run on what would become ...

With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives. And now, cloud storage is ...

New storage systems, coupled with a need to store more than the 1.44 megabytes of data held by a standard floppy, have led to its demise. Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy ...

Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks to make its animatronic ... depend on technologies like Boeing 747 jets and parts of the San Francisco ... C Chuck E.’s run on flash drive/SD card ...

From floppy disks to fax machines: ... and this was followed by news that the German Navy was looking to replace the floppy drives used on its four Brandenburg class F123 ... in parts of the ...

How to use Floppy Disk Drive on Windows 11/10. If you have an old physical Floppy Drive that you can attach to your device, then you will need to download the latest driver from the Windows Update ...

With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives. And now, cloud storage is ...