Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk ... Shugart's team designed a 5.25-inch 'mini floppy' disk in 1976 that stored ...

Gen Z may not realize it, but there was once a time when personal computer users relied heavily on floppy disk storage for everything ... usurped by the 5.25-inch mini-floppy in 1976 and the ...

(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 ...

In 2022, Japan's digital minister "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech like CDs and mini-discs ... especially in the so-called "lobit" subculture, which celebrates low-bitrate ...

What’s actually on the floppy, then? The corresponding Spotify album URL. He just pops a disk in the drive, and the Pi does the rest — it detects the floppy event and executes a script that ...

3M, or as it was officially called until 2002 ... to be is the subject of an article by [Ernie Smith], focusing on floppy disk storage. Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or ...