While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and lightweight enough to run off a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk, as ...

So why are we doing floppy disk," said Katie Guillen, SFMTA passenger. Turns out that in 1998, SFMTA had the latest cutting edge technology when they installed their automatic train control system.

Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a medium for loading microcode into the System ...

Although mechanically sound, the drive had trouble reading disks, and Adrian quickly set out to fix the issue. Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he ...

A House Transportation Committee hearing focused on recent aviation accidents and aging FAA tech, which the GAO has called ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Well, the answer to this question depends on your computer system. You can rename any hard drive from A to Z if you do not have reserved storage space for Floppy Disks. You can check this in the ...

Software that initializes a disk. There are two formatting levels on a magnetic medium such as a hard disk or floppy disk. The low-level format initializes the disk surface by creating the ...