a guy named Steve Wozniak wanted to add a floppy drive to his next computer. His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a ...

The interface for a floppy drive might have required some complexity ... The library provides functions to allow low level work with floppy disks, to read them sector by sector.

IBM offered an extra-high density 2.88MB drive on selected PCs that was backward compatible, but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS ...

Floppy disks could read and write, which made them great for academia. However, by the time I started college courses, they ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

all the way up to Central Point’s Copy II PC Option Board that would man-in-the-middle between the floppy disk drive and the CPU, intercepting data and render those copy protections pointless.

(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 ...

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We checked the Silverstone FLP01 manual and it shows that to gain access to the system internals the top cover slides back ...

Dell Computer said Wednesday it will stop putting the drives in its desktop computers next month and offer them only as an option. Newer storage devices can hold far more data, at a competitive ...