Collaborate Disseminate
Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside floppy enthusiasts needn’t fret — just use AOL keyword point that browser toward floppydisk.com. There, you can buy new …read more Continue reading Floppy Disk Sales Are Higher-Density Than You Might Think
The other day, a medical office needed my insurance card. I asked them where to e-mail it and they acted like I had offered them human flesh as an appetizer. …read more Continue reading Floppy Disk Sings: I’m Big in Japan
There are some tings that should be possible, so just have to be tried. [Action Retro] has a great video showing just such an escapade, the creation of a large …read more Continue reading It’s RAID. With Floppy drives.
The wildly successful PDP-11 minicomputer was a major influence on the evolution of computing throughout the 1970s. While fondly remembered in modern day emulation, there’s nothing like booting up the …read more Continue reading PDP-11/34 Restoration And The Virtue Of Persistence
On [Jan Derogee]’s desk is something that wouldn’t look out of place for many of us, a pile of computer magazines with a case of 3.5″ floppy disks on top …read more Continue reading It’s Always Floppy Time!
We should probably have a new metric for measuring mass storage performance: bytes per pound. An old IBM tape drive from the S/360 days, for example, could hold almost 6 …read more Continue reading 8″ Floppy on Your PC?
Among the plethora of obsolete removable media there are some which are lamented, but it can be difficult to find those who regret the passing of the floppy disk. These …read more Continue reading Arduino Nano Floppy Emulator For When Your Disk Is Not Accessible
When we think of retrocomputing, it’s very often the computers themselves that get all the glory. There’s nothing wrong with this of course- the computers of the late 70’s and …read more Continue reading The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk: A Deep Dive Into Disks, Controllers, And Much More
A forum post by New Zealand electronics enthusiast [zl2wrw] about retreiving waypoints from a mysterious floppy disk caught our eye. The navigation system on his friend’s fishing boat had died and …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Floppy Driver Uncovers Fishy Secrets
There was a time when booting Linux from a floppy disk was the norm, but of course, those days are long gone. Even if you still had a working 3.5 …read more Continue reading Running Modern Linux from a Single Floppy Disk