How to Emulate a Floppy Disk Drive. Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless ...

Back in the mini-computer era (somewhere around the mid-1960s) our notion of software was that of custom-designed applications built to do a specific job on one machine, or perhaps one dedicated ...

The Boeing 747-400 aircraft first entered service in the late 1980s when 3.5-inch floppy disks were still cutting edge with a whopping 1.44 MB of formatted storage space.

A 1988 floppy disk with the Steve Job's, Apple co-founders, autograph sold for a whopping $84,000 at auction. It contains Macintosh System Tools 6.0 and was originally valued at $7,500.

How to Retrieve Files From an Unreadable Floppy. In the 1990s, floppy disks were the medium of choice for home and business users alike to copy and store important data. Floppy disk use declined ...

When I wrote about a modern OS that could run on a floppy disk, I knew I had to try it. Something about going back to the old days when apps could fit within a 1.44MB disk format ...

1. disks 1-9 - PenPoint Software Development Kit, copyright 1992 . the first eights disks are numbered from 1 to eight. the last is marked "Goodies. This is version 1.01 2. disk 10 - PENPOINT ...

Further prompting a need for updates, the software on the floppy disks is also now officially out of date, as it was expected to last for 20 to 25 years, Muni officials told the San Fransisco ...

People who don’t work in aviation are often surprised to learn that the antiquated floppy disk is still used in some instances to load essential software and data to aircraft. Such labor intensive ...

Yes, we recently learned that the Boeing 747 relies on Floppy disks for getting critical software updates. This was discovered thanks to cybersecurity firm Pen Test Partners as they showed off a ...

In 2018, floppy disk sales actually went up when small indie music labels turned to the 3.5-inch floppy at the height of the vaporwave trend. But getting back to planes, modern isn’t always better.

As a fan of music, this is pretty cool. Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak has created a “PC hardware orchestra” that plays tunes through floppy disks and other computer hardware parts. The Floppotron 3 ...