Unlike the later 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy disks, the 8-inch disks had a flexible and truly "floppy" feel. They were made from a thin piece of magnetized material encased in a protective ...

While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and lightweight enough to run off a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk, as ...

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer being ...

This past year, we've also covered efforts in Germany and Japan to leave floppy disks behind ... control system uses bulkier 5.25-inch floppy drives, not standard 3.5-inch floppies or larger ...

Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip disk and Floptical. (2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk developed by IBM and available on certain IBM PCs. With a 2.88MB capacity ...