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 ...

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 ...

The Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh, and IBM PC all shipped with floppy drives. Despite my love of the old and crusty ...

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

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

But the rising popularity of Windows and other ... But the advent of CD-ROM, USB drives and improved hard disk capabilities marked the beginning of the end for floppy disks. The last major ...

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