That delightfully Web 1.0 site is owned by Tom Persky, who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that address ...

Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a medium for loading microcode into the System ...

Troubleshooting 3.5-inch floppy disks It’s actually pretty amazing that I can pop a disk from the 1980s into a Windows 11 PC sold this year and reasonably expect to read its data. Yet while it ...

Over the course of the 20th and 21st Centuries, technology has been advancing at the speed of a NASA X-43 breaking the sound ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer being ...

Oh, the exciting life I've led! In either case, it would have been a single-sided, 8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data. Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

For a long time, physical storage was king. I loaded my first computer games from cassette tapes, and using my first 5.25-inch floppy disk felt like magic. 3.5-inch disks ruled for a while before ...

Yes, floppy disks are still in use ... but nowadays he sells the most common type, the 3 1/2 inch, for US$1 a piece. "There’s a worldwide inventory of disks that were manufactured 10, 20 ...