The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the 5.25-inch floppy disk, which was then overtaken by the 3.5-inch floppy disk in the 1980s and 1990s. The save icon in many contemporary ...

Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required ... United States that makes its money off of supplying 3.5" floppy disks to industries and hobbyists that use them ...

The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

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 ...

While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used ... compressed audio could be squeezed onto a standard 3.5 inch floppy, and then that the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night album ...

Sony, which launched the market for 3.5-inch floppy discs in 1981 ... 2009 was a difficult year for floppy disc manufacturing, but the business is actually rebounding a bit in 2010, said Will ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.