We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used ... It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as Sony’s Mavica line of digital cameras, but outside those who maintain ...

The situation as explained to me is that in the late 1990’s, my brother’s employer purchased a Yamaha Mark II XG “Baby Grand” piano for ... from 3.5 inch floppy disks, complete with ...

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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Now on to fax machines? Japan's digital minister, Taro Kono, confirmed that the Japanese government has finally rid itself of floppy disks.… "We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!" ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

When Zip disks came out in 1995 with 100MB cartridges, their huge storage compared to floppy disks made them very popular. However, like all removable media of that era, the Zip was eclipsed by ...

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

That's the essence of ESD; instead of shipping boxes full of plastic disks, some vendors find it ... providers receive and deliver software. Digital River, one of the largest purveyors of e ...

But these rules have now finally been scrapped, said Digital Minister Taro Kono. In 2021, Mr Kono had "declared war" on floppy disks. On Wednesday, almost three years later, he announced ...