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Eight in One for the IBM - Five Floppy Disks with Software and a Manual Used with a Compaq Portable Computer

Spinnaker Software developed this set of programs for use with IBM-compatible computers. The eight programs were a word processor, a database, a spreadsheet, a desktop organizer, grapics, a ...
Hackaday

Exploring PC Floppy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock

[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 these ...
Chicago Tribune

The last Blockbuster on Earth uses IBM computers with floppy disks from the 1990s. Of course it does.

What would the last member of a species say as it stares into the abyss of extinction, if it could? Perhaps it would offer an ode to the many that came before it, each marching toward an unknown ...
Ars Technica

Why the floppy disk just won’t die

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...
PC World

U.S. government agencies are still using Windows 3.1, floppy disks and 1970s computers

Some U.S. government agencies are using IT systems running Windows 3.1, the decades-old COBOL and Fortran programming languages, or computers from the 1970s. A backup nuclear control messaging system ...