I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...
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Yes, you can still use floppy disks with Windows 11! Here’s howYour first (and best) option is to check out any local vintage electronics stores and/or recyclers in your area. These stores typically have used 3.5-inch floppy disks for sale, and you can expect ...
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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...
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 ...
[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...
(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 ...
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One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unseeFiles written under one OS could not be read when using the other. The supplier of the PCs therefore provided an application ...
When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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 ...
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 ...
Without the Floppy Disks, the earlier computer systems could not be run. Since Floppy Disk was the first hard drive to store the data and run the computer programs, it was named with the letter A ...
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