If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...

For an entire generation, this Hollywood icon will be forever remembered as the original Daisy Duke. Now 70, the Dukes of ...

The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

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There he found an ISA board capable of controlling up to eight drives from [Sergey Kiselev] called the Monster Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) — arguably overkill for the task, but too impressive ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

On [Jan Derogee]’s desk is something that wouldn’t look out of place for many of us, a pile of computer magazines with a case of 3.5″ floppy disks on top of it. The causal observer would see ...

Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.

Its connected, cloud-based capabilities have become indispensable for businesses of all sizes and steamrolled the perpetual license model for software downloaded from floppy disks and CD-ROMs.