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As Japan kills floppy disks, here's the old tech that many still love
Data is arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk in 'concentric' tracks, much like the ring-like grooves on a vinyl record. When inserted into a computer's floppy disk drive, a metal slide ...
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The 1990s objects kids have never heard of - how many do YOU remember?
Data is arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk in 'concentric' tracks, much like the ring-like grooves on a vinyl record. When inserted into a computer's floppy disk drive, a metal slide ...
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Music Player Erected From Floppy Disks
What’s actually on the floppy, then? The corresponding Spotify album URL. He just pops a disk in the drive ... he’s actually managed to improve on the vinyl experience, since all the songs ...
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VCF West: All The Floptical Disks
The other Nintendo floppy disk on display was the Famicom Disk Card ... I present to you the dumbest audio CD you’ll ever see: The ‘vinyl’ CD. It’s a standard CD single, but phonograph ...
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The unlikely staying power of the humble floppy disk
When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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 ...
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super floppy
(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 ...