The alphabet begins with the letter A, but the first drive on a reasonably up-to-date Windows computer is labeled “C:”. Why ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...

While the whole build is impressive, the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular USB flash drive when inserted into the floppy drive.

The Pippin is rare, and that means the related accessories, ranging from magneto-optical drives to floppy drives, are incredibly hard to come by. Now, one of those peripherals isn’t rare ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require one. Utility programs such as Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) can be used to ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The system uses three floppy disks for loading DOS software that controls the ... to the train control system to run the train in automatic mode, where the trains drive themselves while the operators ...

ZIP drives and portable hard drives --especially keychain-sized flash memory devices -- have established themselves as far more useful. "The utility of a floppy disk is just no longer there for ...

A curiosity recently caught our eye—that curiosity is KolibriOS, a super-lightweight, ultra-fast OS designed for legacy PCs with its floppy drive-friendly install size of just 1.44 MB.

The original Mac let you erase disks right on the Desktop, with the feature returning thanks to macOS Sequoia. Here's how to use it. When the original Mac was released in 1984, its desktop allowed ...