A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage ...

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller ... a video on the bus which he calls the “USB of the 80s.” Historically, Shugart — a maker of disks — was ...

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the 5.25 ... 1.44 MB which was the most commonly known standard by the late 80s. Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the ...

Introduced by IBM in 1971, the first floppy disk was a giant eight-inch storage device capable of holding just 80 kilobytes ...

(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 ...

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used as a portable means of storage and for backups. A solid-state drive (SSD) uses technology similar to that ...