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 ...

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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

(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 handful of games and applications were offered in this "tape wafer" format, and several thousand drives were sold before the floppy disk made them obsolete. See TRS-80 and how to spoof your ...

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 ...