Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

I used to hand my work to the editor on a 3.5in disk. I can’t remember exactly when I last saved a file onto a floppy, but it’s unlikely to have been this century. Yet, amazingly, these ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

That is, literally walking the information from one computer to another by hand carrying disks. In 1981, Sony introduced the 3.5-inch floppy disk. It quickly gained popularity due to its smaller ...

Starting with a disk caddy on linear rails, [Smith] has a track for the floppy to follow ... are all you really need to do the job by hand, but if you have a lot of floppies, that can get tedious ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course ... which is why the team at Adafruit recommend having a few on hand if you want to maximize your chances of ...

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...