Once it’s all set up and working, the USB floppy drive will basically perform like a slow USB flash drive. You can drag-and-drop files into and out of the drive (assuming you have a floppy disk ...

For a lot of people, "floppy disks just work", said the BBC. Why spend money upgrading technology that's "basically fine"? Although floppy disk music "peaked" in the 2010s, it's "still going ...

This pioneering work, Project Minnow, led to the creation of the first commercially viable 8-inch floppy disk in 1971. Its 79K of storage may seem like nothing to you, but it held the equivalent ...

Where did the floppy disk come from, where is it still with ... a boot floppy was an essential tool in the armory of anybody working with computers, but as the CD and USB drive took over that ...

[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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...

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 ...

In Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies, players can find a Floppy Disk in the Shattered Veil map, which is key to unlocking powerful weapons. By following specific steps, players can obtain and ...