If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you ...

Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5 ... DD = double density HD = high density ED = extra=high density THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

See floppy disk. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

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 ...

Japan’s Digital Agency announced at the beginning of the month that it eliminated the use of floppy disks in its government systems. Does that mean that somewhere in the world, a core government ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Just because these disks are no longer being ... as [Ladyada] explained during this week’s Floppy Interfacing Hack Chat with Adafruit, the ongoing chip shortages mean its often easier and ...