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8 inch floppy disk
That delightfully Web 1.0 site is owned by Tom Persky, who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that address ...
Yes, you can still use floppy disks with Windows 11! Here’s how
Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions.
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A brief explanation why
Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a medium for loading microcode into the System ...
A floppy disk in the mail launched the world's first ransomware attack 35 years ago
The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch ...
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Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places
Oh, the exciting life I've led! In either case, it would have been a single-sided, 8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data. Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then ...
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The Floppy Disk As A Portable Music Format
We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used ... compressed audio could be squeezed onto a standard 3.5 inch floppy, and then that the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night album ...
Missing Link: 35 years of ransomware – It began with a simple floppy disk
A simple floppy disk in the then common 5.25 inch format with the inscription "AIDS Information – Introductory Diskette 2.0" ...
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flippy-floppy
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 ...