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 ...

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 ...

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

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations. The deal is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks.