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If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you need to know.
To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still relies on Windows 95 and floppy disks for air travel, though hopefully not for too much longer.
The FAA will no longer use Windows 95 for air traffic control. Floppy disks, another tech relic, will also be canned—something that should have happened a long time ago, one would think.
The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using floppy disks to a more modern system.
America's air traffic control network runs on decades-old technology, and the acting FAA director wants to replace the whole system.
You absolutely could not expect a floppy disk from one type of computer to work in another. That is, unless you had a magical three-format disk, as [RobSmithDev] explains.
Businesses in Japan must keep their floppy disk drives for one more year, before changes to the law finally kick in … The Register reports.
Even finding a floppy disk drive of this size is a difficult task, but this was further compounded not just by the age of the disk but that the data wasn’t encoded in the expected format.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still relies on Windows 95 and floppy disks for air travel, though hopefully not for too much longer.