To that end he’s created a piece of software called 8format, which not only allows 8″ disks to be formatted for the PC, but also provides a driver that replaces the BIOS floppy settings for ...

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.

The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before that, the 8-inch floppy was the icon of data storage. In fact, its ...

As technology marches on at an unprecedented pace, many devices and standards have fallen by the wayside, replaced by faster, sleeker, and more efficient alternatives. Not all outdated ...

Technicians need to use floppy disks for software loading and data transfer with these older planes. Older medical equipment also requires the use of floppy disks to move data around and update ...

who were annoyed at having their heart monitoring software copied for free. Aimed at the IBM PC, the Brain virus only slowed down the floppy disk drive and did no other damage. By replacing the ...