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Yes, you can still use floppy disks with Windows 11! Here’s how
Hosein Zanbori / Unsplash Old floppy disks are also useful for ... may also be the only way to enjoy retro PC games from back in the day. Windows 11 computers don’t come with floppy drives ...
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The Legacy Of The Floppy Still Looms Over Windows
We no longer use floppy disks on the vast majority of computers, but a recent Old New Thing blog post from ... hasn’t been needed for a while. IBM PC floppy drives didn’t implement any form ...
PC Magazine6y
PC floppy disks
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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...
Hackaday1y
Flux Is Your Friend For Archiving Old Floppy Disks
Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives ... bits off those old floppies. Back in the day, the best way to get data off an old drive was to fire up an old computer.
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10 Unexpected Ways To Use Your Old Computer Parts
Take the old CPU from your computer, remove any pins from its ... Although you may not be using your old floppy disks to store important data anymore, you can still get some use out of them ...
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America's feared nuclear missile facilities are still controlled by computers from the 1960s and floppy disks
60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to ...
PC Magazine3y
Brain virus
The first full-stealth computer virus ... Aimed at the IBM PC, the Brain virus only slowed down the floppy disk drive and did no other damage. By replacing the boot sector in the floppy disk ...