Floppy drives have particularly low-level interfaces, offering up little more than a few signals to indicate the position of the head on the disk, and pulses to indicate changes in magnetic flux.

Is this an alignment problem, where multiple drives have written ... s a spot in the disk that is going bad, and the stronger magnetic field is required to reset the floppy’s field.

Nothing to do with "strings of text" or "string theory," a Stringy Floppy was a magnetic tape drive ... and several thousand drives were sold before the floppy disk made them obsolete.

Data is arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk in 'concentric' tracks, much like the ring-like grooves on a vinyl record. When inserted into a computer's floppy disk drive, a metal slide ...

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 ...

The discs and the drives ... year for floppy disc manufacturing, but the business is actually rebounding a bit in 2010, said Will Qualls, global product director for the magnetic tape business ...

(2) A device that spins, reads and writes a removable storage medium such as a CD, DVD or floppy disk. In the past ... which is inserted into the drive's slot. (3) A magnetic tape drive, all ...