Collaborate Disseminate
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
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
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
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
Continue reading Floppy Disks Still Used To Update 747 Flight Software
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
Continue reading 45 Minute Podcast Served Up On A Floppy Disk
Most of us are used to a typical 101-key setup for typing on our machines. Mobile and touchscreen devices have offered alternative interfaces over the years, but generally still sticking to QWERTY or other similar layouts. [foone] cares not for convention however, building a text-entry device based on the iconic …read more
A latest episode of the Naked Security podcast is out now! Continue reading S2 Ep15: City under attack! VPN hacked, floppies nixed
The disks are part of the command centres that run the country’s nuclear missile deterrent on behalf of SACCS. Continue reading US nuclear weapons command finally ditches 8-inch floppies
We no longer use floppy disks on the vast majority of computers, but a recent Old New Thing blog post from Microsoft sheds light on one of their possible unexpected legacies. It seems Windows disk cache items expire after two seconds, and as the post explains this has its origin …read more
Continue reading The Legacy Of The Floppy Still Looms Over Windows
About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers. What makes it worthy of note is that he remarks that the …read more
Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Floppy Disk Orphaned by Linux