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.

Makers of hard disk drives, under growing pressure from faster rivals, hope a breakthrough will keep it the dominant ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used as a portable means of storage and for backups. A solid-state drive (SSD) uses technology similar to that ...

Seagate’s innovation, heat-assisted magnetic recording ... while other media such as punch cards, floppy disks and CD-ROMs fell into obscurity. The drives’ capacity grew as their price ...