which not only allows 8″ disks to be formatted for the PC, but also provides a driver that replaces the BIOS floppy settings for these drives. This doesn’t work for imaging disks from other ...

IBM PC floppy drives didn’t implement any form of notification for a disk eject, so it became quite possible for a disk to be ejected while the operating system still believed cached data from ...

Since then, KolibriOS has become widely multi-platform while maintaining a 32-bit focus and becoming lightweight enough to ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

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 ...

Nothing to do with "strings of text" or "string theory," a Stringy Floppy was a magnetic tape drive for the Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computer ... before the floppy disk made them obsolete.

In a Windows PC, the primary drive is C:. When additional disks ... were assigned to the first and second floppy disks. The naming convention remained because even after floppy disks were no ...

The company no longer provides floppy drives on standard notebook computers. Apple Computer stopped including floppy disk drives in Macintosh computers five years ago. Other PC makers, including ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.