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 ...

Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he tests the ... how the drive was designed as a single-sided unit, yet hints at potential double-sided capability ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Unfortunately, about a month or so back, the piano’s Disklavier DKC500RW control unit stopped ... cable heading to the floppy drive, there’s also a HD63266F floppy disk drive controller.

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to ...

FOR anyone over the age of 40 and familiar with computers, floppy disks were a fact of life until what feels like relatively recently. For those younger than 40, a floppy disk was the ...

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...

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 ...