No matter what the size—eight-inch, 5 1/4-inch, 3 1/2-inch—floppy disks are the most iconic symbols of old-school computing. But how do they actually work? The 8-Bit Guy spends 15 minutes breaking ...
About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.
That'll a be a huge, 50-storey, fully-carpeted yep according to YouTuber DocJade. He decided that installing and running the ...
The pbm2track tool repurposes a floppy disk's track timing diagram into a secret tool for hiding pixel images.
It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...