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 ...

They were made from a thin piece of magnetized material encased in a protective plastic envelope, with a central hole for the drive's spindle. The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by ...

No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

A cheap 8 GB USB thumb drive gave you far more storage, after all. So, now they remain something of a curio for those ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented ... The interface for a floppy drive might have required some complexity back in the days of 8-bit microcomputers, but even for today ...

(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 ...

and USB thumb drives so cheap they are trade show giveaways. 2009 was a difficult year for floppy disc manufacturing, but the business is actually rebounding a bit in 2010, said Will Qualls ...