Floppy disks were first developed in the early 1970s as 8-inch (approximately 200 mm) disks, with smaller 5.25-inch (approximately 130 mm) disks appearing in 1976. Floppy disks then became most ...

They were, in a word, cumbersome. Also: BASIC turns 60: Why simplicity was this programming language's blessing and its curse Floppy disks predated me getting my feet wet in computing. In the late ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

Many companies, especially smaller ones, outsourced their protection. I have seen byte-for-byte identical copy protection on disks from seven different companies! Even companies that wrote their own ...

When we went back in there to see how much renovation needed to be done, the light board was so old that it had floppy disks,” she said. “One of the really interesting misconceptions about the ...

Physical games are still being sold, but with the current generation moving towards digital sales, the days of the disc drive are numbered. For PlayStation fans in particular, using a disc to run ...

punch cards and floppy disks. It should be in a museum. Read more: Car insurance rates have spiked in the US to a stunning $2,150/year — but you can be smarter than that. Here's how you can save ...

This may sound like your average golf game, but it's not. It's disc golf. "It's just like ball golf," Nobles said, as he walked to collect his neon-green disc in the tall grass. Just like it ...

The Community Edition of Paragon can schedule backups of files, volumes and/or disks; backup strategy definition; disk space management; version control; viewing contents of backups and even ...

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