[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

Like floppy disk, it's time to think about retirement ... it became clear that this person was more interested in the title than in the actual substance of our conversation.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that floppy disks had long gone the way of the ... the system "is an essential part of ...

Japan has declared war on old-fashioned tech solutions including floppy disks and CDs after a government committee found they were still being used to submit applications and other forms in almost ...

IMG is useful for backing up floppy disks and creating hard ... copy of an entire optical drive and contains actual data that ...

Floppy disks were first developed in the early 1970s as 8-inch (approximately 200 mm) disks, with smaller 5.25-inch (approximately 130 mm) disks appearing in 1976.

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...

The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

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 ...

CD-ROM drive and a floppy disk drive underneath ... though Benbouziyane made them accurate to the actual guts. My God, it even has a dedicated volume wheel on the CD-ROM! Even though it’s ...