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Floppy Disks: A Brief History
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.
[Action Retro] has a great video showing just such an escapade, the creation of a large RAID 0 array using a pile of USB floppy drives. Yes, taking one of the smallest and most unreliable pieces ...
The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...
KolibriOS fits on a single floppy disk, updated as recently as a few months ago. Despite its old-school appearance, it ...
and with much greater capacity than a typical floppy. Smaller, more compact, and less fragile than CD/DVD: A USB key drives storage medium will never scratch, and it is much more rigid than CD/DVD ...
USB Write access or USB Write protection is the ... Hardware writes protection is mostly available in the card reader or floppy disks. In hardware write protection there will be a mechanical ...
The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations. The deal is ...
Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.
The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the ... but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage medium ...
Speaking on her podcast The Ins & Outs, Pollyanna Wilkinson answered a listeners query about detangling floppy "ponytail grass." "It’s really flopped about and incredibly messing looking now ...
"It gets really floppy this time of year and usually that means you haven’t combed it." She explained that she uses a £5 Tangle Teaser to tackle the grass plant. "I recommend it, it's the best ...