Yes, you can still use floppy disks with Windows 11! Here’s how
If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you ...
PC Magazine6y
PC floppy disks
Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS/ED (IBM only) 360KB 5.25" DS/DD 1.2MB 5.25" DS/HD DS = double sided DD = double density HD = high density ED = extra=high ...
Hackaday5y
Retrotechtacular: The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux
Where did the floppy disk come from, where is it still with us ... This Disgo-branded 32MB Flash drive cost me a small fortune back in about 2001, but meant I could carry a load of floppies ...
Hackaday3y
An Arduino With A Floppy Drive
For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented ... The interface for a floppy drive might have required some complexity back in the days of 8-bit microcomputers, but even for today ...
THE WEEK9mon
The unlikely staying power of the humble floppy disk
In 2022, Japan's digital minister "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech like CDs and mini-discs, after a committee discovered nearly 2,000 areas in which businesses were still ...
TechSpot1y
A brief explanation why
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 ...
PC Magazine5y
super floppy
(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 ...
The Austin Chronicle7y
Floppy Disk Repair Co.
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 ...