You may run into a few common problems when using floppy disks today. Matt Smith / Foundry For example, you might not be able to write to the disk even though the drive is working properly.

My business, which used to be 90% CD and DVD duplication, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. It’s shocking to me. — Tom Persky In the course of writing a book all about yours-truly’s ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

What’s actually on the floppy, then? The corresponding Spotify album URL. He just pops a disk in the drive ... [Dino]’s simple web interface for writing the Spoti-floppies.

A storage drive that reads and writes more than one type of storage medium. For example, a magneto-optic disk drive can be used for rewritable disks as well as write once disks. A Floptical drive ...

but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Software Write Protection. Hardware writes protection is mostly available in the card reader or floppy disks. In hardware write protection there will be a mechanical switch at the side of the card ...

Storage relics of a bygone era Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine ...

Due to this, they used external storage media to store the program. These storage media were the Floppy Disks. Computer owners used these Floppy Disks to store their data and to run their computer ...