While it’s fun to imagine that he wrote a compression algorithm to fit a lossless copy of Coltrane’s Blue ... the floppy, then? The corresponding Spotify album URL. He just pops a disk in ...

Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful ... who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that ...

Sir Dr. NakaMats is one of the greatest inventors of our time; his biggest claim to fame is the floppy disk ... Still, to avoid conflicts, Big Blue struck a series of licensing agreements with ...

(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 ...

Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS/ED (IBM only) 360KB 5.25" DS/DD 1.2MB 5.25" DS/HD DS = double sided DD = double density HD = high density ED = extra=high ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

Why spend money upgrading technology that's "basically fine"? Although floppy disk music "peaked" in the 2010s, it's "still going strong" in the 2020s, said The Verge. In the 2020 category ...