He has what is probably the most complete collection of different floppy drive formats on the planet, and they were all out on display this weekend. A Famicom Disk Card. Note the indentations ...

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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 ...

… the FreeDOS kernel is still the same version from FreeDOS 1.3 because the new kernel is not ready yet. For now, FreeDOS 1.4 ...

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 ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

(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 ...