To that end he’s created a piece of software called 8format, which not only allows 8″ disks to be formatted for the PC, but also provides a driver that replaces the BIOS floppy settings for ...

That delightfully Web 1.0 site is owned by Tom Persky, who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that address ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

Even then, 8-inch floppies were passé ... but there was once a time when personal computer users relied heavily on floppy disk storage for everything from data retention to gaming.

As computer networking and new storage formats ... the US nuclear missile sites force still used 8-inch floppy disks as part of the system for coordinating operational components.