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 ...

It’s a very reasonable view to have arrived at because outside the realm of retrocomputing the physical rather than virtual floppy disk has all ... me a small fortune back in about 2001, but ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented ... The interface for a floppy drive might have required some complexity back in the days of 8-bit microcomputers, but even for today ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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