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 ...

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

(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 ...

A curiosity recently caught our eye—that curiosity is KolibriOS, a super-lightweight, ultra-fast OS designed for legacy PCs with its floppy drive-friendly install size of just 1.44 MB.

There he found an ISA board capable of controlling up to eight drives from [Sergey Kiselev] called the Monster Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) — arguably overkill for the task, but too impressive ...

KolibriOS fits on a single floppy disk, updated as recently as a few months ago. Despite its old-school appearance, it ...

Why spend money upgrading technology that's "basically fine"? Although floppy disk music "peaked" in the 2010s, it's "still going strong" in the 2020s, said The Verge. In the 2020 category ...

Floppy disks were the dominant form of data storage in the 1980s and 90s — before the advent of CD-ROM, USB drives and more advanced hard disk drives. AP Three floppy disks are used for loading ...

Another project that harkens back to that golden era is this Raspberry Pi floppy controller board from [Dr. Scott M. Baker]. [Scott] is no stranger to floppy controllers, having worked with the ...

After starting initial planning in 2018, the SFMTA originally expected to move to a floppy-disk-free train control system by 2028. But with COVID-19 preventing work for 18 months, the estimated ...

Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.

Turning to storage devices, he asked: "Where does one even buy a floppy disk these days?" This is not the first time Japan has hit the headlines for its old-fashioned habits - which remain a ...