Floppies may also be the only way to enjoy retro PC games from back in the day. Windows 11 computers don’t come with floppy drives, so if you want to use floppy disks on a modern PC, you’ll ...

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 ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy ... ED = extra=high density THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

When attempting to read the disk, the PC BIOS interrupt routine assumes ... the game bypasses the BIOS and talks directly to the floppy disk controller using some custom code.

Some Boeing 747 aeroplanes use floppy disks to load "critical software updates" into their navigation computers. In the 2010s, US officials were discovered to still be using floppy disks to manage ...

Aimed at the IBM PC, the Brain virus only slowed down the floppy disk drive and did no other damage ... THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk ... computer movies and TV shows. Answering demand for a smaller format diskette that was more manageable and affordable for ...

Also: The Mac turns 40: How Apple's rebel PC almost failed again and again ... machines, still use floppy disks to load software updates and programs. Also: You know Apple's origin story but ...