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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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

helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8 ...

While the first computer virus (Creeper ... It targeted IBM PCs and would replace a floppy disk's boot sector with a copy of the virus and flag the real boot sector as bad. Infected boot sectors ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

If you have ever studied the early history of the GNU/Linux operating system in its many forms, you’ll have read that [Linus Torvalds] developed his first ... small as a floppy disk, so ...

Without the Floppy Disks, the earlier computer systems could not be run. Since Floppy Disk was the first hard drive to store the data and run the computer programs, it was named with the letter A ...

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB ... We loved those disks and that blazingly fast 6MHz computer. Also: Dell turns 40: How a teenager transformed $1,000 worth of ...