About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air ... of retrocomputing the physical rather than virtual floppy disk has all but disappeared. It’s well over a decade ...

After it was upgraded to 1.2MB in 1984, 360KB diskettes were still used to distribute software ... but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB ...

The BASIC source code and images for the game were stored on a single ProDOS formatted, soft-sectored 5.25″ floppy disk. Fast-forward thirty years to today and [Benjamin] found to his dismay ...

Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.

The 1990s called – they're impressed The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS ...

The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before that, the 8-inch floppy was the icon of data storage. In fact, its ...

(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 ...

Some Boeing 747 aeroplanes use floppy disks to load "critical software updates" into their ... Although floppy disk music "peaked" in the 2010s, it's "still going strong" in the 2020s, said ...