Very bendable in its plastic jacket, the first 5.25" floppy held 360KB. After it was upgraded to 1.2MB in 1984, 360KB diskettes were still used to distribute software, because 1.2MB drives ...

And many people find a 1.44 MB disk too puny to handle the daily data of a digital life -- photos ... longer provides floppy drives on standard notebook computers. Apple Computer stopped including ...

(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 ...

Long before we were using modems and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) to share programs, pictures ... computer networking and new storage formats like USB flash drives and memory cards emerged, the ...

helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8 ...

In addition it incorporates the FatFS library for MS-DOS FAT file-level access, and finally the ArduDOS environment which allows browsing of files on a floppy. The pictures show a 3.5″ drive ...