With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs ... to sector alignment issues from years of constant writing by different drives, this may sometimes fix a disk. In this case one of ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since ... In the early 1970s there were a variety of different 8″ drive standards that weren’t all entirely compatible ...

A disk file that simulates a floppy disk. It is used to duplicate floppies, to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require ...

Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy.