He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors have the same spacing as SD cards. Add in a hacked USB card reader, some careful cutting and assembly, and [gilmour509] has a very ...

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 ...

Why not just pick up a cheap USB floppy drive from the A to Z online ... chip is exceedingly selective about what kind of disks it will read. If you’re only worried about bog standard IBM ...

but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli ...

Lee Wimmer invited us to tour his second-generation family-owned machine shop in Perkasie, PA. This video explores the production processes behind precision-machined parts for both Wimmer Custom Cycle ...

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First developed as FAT (File Allocation Table) in 1977 for floppy disks, it was eventually extended ... In fact, Windows is ...

For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

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 ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

"The government still uses floppy disks? That's so outdated... I guess they're just full of old people," read another comment on X. Others comments were more nostalgic. “I wonder if floppy disks ...