Zip disks, and CD-ROMs of the past in their numbers or ubiquity. If the floppy disk is just a save icon to you there’s still the chance to experience their retro charm though, courtesy of ...

This allows you to bring up an overlay menu for controlling the emulator in order to configure which virtual floppy disk is currently ‘in the drive’. He’s even gone so far as to add a piezo ...

(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 ...

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the 5. ... Another popular "superdisk" alternative was the Iomega Zip drive which launched with capacities of 100 MB. Later on it was available ...

Rewriteable CDs, ZIP drives and portable hard drives --especially keychain-sized flash memory devices -- have established themselves as far more useful. "The utility of a floppy disk is just no ...

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 ...