Other details about spinning disks include the fact that inner tracks are shorter than outer track and ... RAMs, a floppy drive controller, and, of course, MIDI chips. Apparently, opening ...

The same can’t be said of the floppy disk tooling and equipment, which Tom estimates would cost around 25 million dollars to spin up from the dead. ... When I got a floppy drive in 1984, ...

Developed during the 1960s, a Floppy Disk is certainly a thing of the past. But some users may still need it for some reason. Floppy drives were extensively used during the 1980s, 1990s, and early ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

These stores typically have used 3.5-inch floppy disks for sale, and you can expect to pay around $0.25 per disk. No more than $0.50 each, else you’re being ripped off. Fredy Jacob / Unsplash ...

RETRO-TASTIC It's been close to fifteen years since the last new floppy disk was manufactured by Sony. That's a long time by any standard, and it's especially lengthy in the ever-advancing tech world.

His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a lot of hacking, Woz got the first floppy drive to run on what would become ...

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...

The Afghanistan mission is now history. A new tender suggests that the country now has to be defended on drive A:. Because without floppy disks, the F123 class frigates are not going anywhere.

A floppy disk-focused music festival, Floppy Totaal, began in Rotterdam in 2014. Throughout the 2000s, floppy drive emulators grew in popularity, which added a layer of practicality to the floppy ...