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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But as obsolete as its technology may seem, the floppy disk is still used today. For example, industrial embroidery machines ...

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 ...

but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli ...

The naming convention remained because even after floppy disks were no longer used, many people retained a floppy drive to read old files. In a network, drive mappings reference remote drives ...

For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

Software Write Protection. Hardware writes protection is mostly available in the card reader or floppy disks. In hardware write protection there will be a mechanical switch at the side of the card ...

"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 That's so outdated...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 ...