Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk ... reaching 1.44 MB which was the most commonly known standard by the late 80s. Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy ...

2. Launch Virtual Floppy Drive, then click the "Driver" tab. Click the "Start" button, then "Open/Create." 3. Browse to the 1.44MB image file you want to open in Virtual Floppy Drive. Highlight ...

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 ... plastic and the disk itself, because ...

Putting my childhood trauma aside for a moment, it turns out that floppy disks may not be quite as dead as we thought.

Therefore the IBM PC was originally only equipped with a 360KB, 5.25-inch floppy ... up to at least Windows 95, a virtual B drive exists even if there is only one floppy disk drive.

I have some nearly 40 years old C64 5.25" floppies which still work on an original 1541 drive. I rarely use them. Besides i think the floppy on the ... I had 720K 3.5" floppies that still worked ...

David Silbey just contributed a link to a must-read interview with the guy who is singlehandedly keeping many of the world’s floppy disk-based systems going. In a September 2022 post in the AIGA Eye ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sussy's Floppy Disk-venture Play as Sussy! A little dude with a backpack who just wants to go and play some bedwars on his computer! Advertisement All ...

We no longer use floppy disks on the vast majority of computers, but a recent Old New Thing blog post from Microsoft sheds light on one of their possible unexpected legacies. It seems Windows disk ...

I mean, hey, if it works. . . . I did find this quote curious: "The system is currently working just fine, but we know that with each increasing year, risk of data degradation on the floppy disks ...