8″ Floppy on Your PC?
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?
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Arduino Nano Floppy Emulator For When Your Disk Is Not Accessible
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
The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk: A Deep Dive Into Disks, Controllers, And Much More
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
Raspberry Pi Floppy Driver Uncovers Fishy Secrets
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
Running Modern Linux from a Single Floppy Disk
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
Reading Floppies with an Oscilloscope
There’s a lot of data on magnetic media that will soon be lost forever, as floppies weren’t really made to sit in attics and basements for decades and still work. …read more Continue reading Reading Floppies with an Oscilloscope
An Arduino With A Floppy Drive
For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented, but there remains a corps of experimenters for whom the classic removable storage format still holds some fascination. …read more Continue reading An Arduino With A Floppy Drive
The Floppy Disk As A Portable Music Format
We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as Sony’s Mavica line of digital cameras, but outside those who maintain and use …read more
Floppy Disks Still Used To Update 747 Flight Software
For garden variety daily computing tasks, the floppy disk has thankfully been a thing of the past for quite some time. Slow, limited in storage and easily corrupted, few yearn for the format to return, even if there is some lingering nostalgia for the disks. As it turns out, though, …read more
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45 Minute Podcast Served Up On A Floppy Disk
Near the turn of the millenium, portable media players like the iPod led to the development of the podcast. The format generally consists of content similar to talk-based radio, and is typically served up in modern codecs like AAC, M4A and MP3. However, [Sean Haas] decided these were all too …read more
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