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 ...

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010, those who are still using this type of storage medium for production and/or retrocomputing purposes have to ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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

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

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

When Zip disks came out in 1995 with 100MB cartridges, their huge storage compared to floppy disks made them very popular. However, like all removable media of that era, the Zip was eclipsed by ...

The hard drive has been the staple of the storage industry since the first ... used by Tandon and Shugart Associates for building floppy disk drives. 1981: SCSI Proposed As A Standard Work on ...

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

The first Macs didn't have SSD or hard drives, but used small 3.5-inch floppy disks - small ... since you no longer need to run Disk Utility to reformat storage volumes.

The prototype has been nicknamed the Twiggy Macintosh because it features the same 5.25-inch double-sided floppy disk drive ... t come with any internal storage, a disk drive users could rely ...