13 thoughts on “ Flux Is Your Friend For Archiving Old Floppy Disks ” Zoe Nagy says: February 29, ... but how can you tell if a 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive is 40 or 80 track ?

“If you built a plane 20 or 30 or even 40 years ago, you would use a floppy disk to get information in and out of some of the avionics of that airplane,” said 73-year-old Persky.

The game has a number of floppy-disk-specific features compared to the arcade classic, though. First, there’s no mallet, so the player must push the floppy disks into the drive manually. Second ...

Remember floppy disks? I, for one, have not forgotten them. That’s probably because I have about 50 collecting dust in an old box that hails from the ’90s. Randy Sarafan, author of a new book ...

The floppy disk had become an old pair of shoes, their soles and laces so worn out as to be \[…\] Skip to main content. Open Navigation Menu. Floppy Disks: A Eulogy. Security; Politics; ...

"These are people who use floppy disks as a way to get information in and out of a machine. Imagine it's 1990, and you're building a big industrial machine of one kind or another.

Old floppy disks are also useful for retro PC enthusiasts. It’s possible to upgrade most retro PCs to bypass the need for floppies, but until you make that upgrade, a 3.5-inch floppy remains the ...

ATLANTA -- When Michael McCreary bought three new computers for his company, he had no need for one of the oldest and most common computer technologies, the floppy drive. But like many computer ...

Most retro gamers use emulators to play old school games on their Android device, but iIf you still have your old floppy disk games and a USB floppy d. Skip to Main Content.