One piece of '90s tech that has seemingly been forgotten and never returned, though, is the floppy disk. Although it still holds on as the standard icon for the "Save" function in computers and apps, ...

Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he tests the drive’s components and explores whether the fault lies with the read/write head or electronic systems.

A holdover from floppy disks on computers, am I the only one who thinks the write protect tab on memory cards is pointless?

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The game has a number of floppy-disk-specific features compared to the arcade classic, though. First, there’s no mallet, so the player must push the floppy disks into the drive manually. Second ...

An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still used in the medical and airline industries.

The floppy disk was an invention of IBM as a way to load microcode into one of their mainframe computers and thus effectively replaced the tabulating card. According to Jim Porter, a “storage ...

There are two kinds of Write protection available for USB drives viz: Hardware writes protection is mostly available in the card reader or floppy disks.

I did a search of the forums for this, so I'm posting it...It sure seems like floppy disks are a lot less reliable than 10 yrs ago. Maybe its my just memory that's less reliable.Is there a way to ...

The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before that, the 8-inch floppy was the icon of data storage.

In brief: If you're old enough to know that floppy disks are more than just save icons, nostalgically recalling pulling down write-protect tabs, scribbling on the labels, and those storage boxes ...

A small, square cutout on the side of a 5.25" floppy disk used to prevent it from being written and erased. To enable the protection, the notch is covered with self-sticking tape. See file protection.