Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we still use ... disk dominated the disk storage medium for more than a decade, and hundreds of millions of disks were ...

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010 ... rely on a dwindling stack of new old stock, or the used market. With the purported unreliability of this ...

Some Boeing 747 aeroplanes use floppy disks to load "critical software updates" into their navigation computers. In the 2010s, US officials were discovered to still be using floppy disks to manage ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy ... After it was upgraded to 1.2MB in 1984, 360KB diskettes were still used to distribute software, because 1.2MB drives ...

Unlike the later 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy disks, the 8-inch disks had a flexible and truly "floppy" feel. They were made from a thin piece of magnetized material encased in a protective ...

But as obsolete as its technology may seem, the floppy disk is still used today. For example, industrial embroidery machines from the 1990s were built to read patterns and designs from floppy disks.

which were the standard, commonly used diskette. See floppy disk. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

[CHZ-Soft] takes this approach, explaining how to use a Saleae logic analyser and a serial port to control a floppy drive and read out the flux changes on the disk. It’s all controlled ...

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