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

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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a pinout for the DE-15 connector that ... your personal collection of Yamaha Disklavier 3.5 inch floppy disks, you can follow along with that project over at ...

Just over a year ago, the team programmed a Raspberry Pi Pico to read floppy disks. Now ... At the moment, the PCB features a 34-pin IDC pinout for interfacing. It also has support for 26-pin ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

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The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations. The deal is ...

(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 ...

On [Jan Derogee]’s desk is something that wouldn’t look out of place for many of us, a pile of computer magazines with a case of 3.5″ floppy disks on top of it. The causal observer would see ...

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

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