so when a “read sector” command is issued to locate the sector, it never finds it. To detect a dodgy copy, the game bypasses the BIOS and talks directly to the floppy disk controller using ...

He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors have the same spacing as SD cards. Add in a hacked USB card reader, some careful cutting and assembly, and [gilmour509] has a very ...

According to GloriousCow, the Formaster Series One deliberately incorporated a bad section into the disk structure, so that 'it was possible to read from the floppy disk to the PC, but it was not ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

When inserted into a computer's floppy disk drive, a metal slide door is opened to expose the inner magnetic circle to read the data. Once the preferred format for storing files and transferring ...

But as obsolete as its technology may seem, the floppy disk is still used today. For example, industrial embroidery machines from the 1990s were built to read patterns and designs from floppy disks.

The setup is a classic Apple IIe, with dual 5.25-inch floppy drives and an Apple monitor. The keyboard and drives may not ...

I was talking with a buddy of mine during Week 1 about how weird it is that most NFL rookies are, like, comfortably a decade ...

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 government still uses floppy disks? That's so outdated... I guess they're just full of old people," read another comment on X. Others comments were more nostalgic. “I wonder if floppy disks ...