On your Windows PC, the drive designations start with C. Where are A and B? The answer can be found in the history of Windows ...

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 ...

[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer and case ... when inserted into the floppy drive. He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors have ...

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 ...

Even though floppy disks have long since gone the ... rules that dictate the use of obsolete media like floppy disks. According to PC Watch, this initiative is part of a broader review of analog ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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 Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...