Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or ... drives used by IBM. It’s a modified version of this interface that can be found in a PC floppy controller.

IBM offered an extra-high density 2.88MB drive on selected PCs that was backward compatible, but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS ...

[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 ...

A year later, IBM introduced the PS/2 with improved graphics, a new 3.5" floppy disk and an incompatible ... In 1989, the PC makers introduced 486-based computers, and Apple came out with faster ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

Other specifications included 64KB of static CMOS memory, a floppy disk drive ... Gavilan SC was more compact than rival IBM PC-compatible portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg ...

As personal computers gained popularity in the 1970s, the floppy disk moved from ... the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with the IBM/AT PC. We loved those disks and that ...