You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer being manufactured ...
[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of these ...
We knew it had to happen sooner or later: an x86 OEM has decided that it's time to put the old 1.44MB floppy drive (aka, Floppy Jr.) to rest. Dell will only be putting floppy drives in their Dimension ...
I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...
What? Japan had to declare war on floppy disks? The country’s digital minister, Taro Kono, publicly stated this on Twitter. According to the minister, the Japanese government has too many businesses ...
A 3.5-inch floppy disk holds 1.44 megabytes. That is roughly 90 seconds of music compressed as an MP3 at a decent bitrate. It ...