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 ...

A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppies. Employee TikTok demos a robot show ...

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The expansion capabilities for the Pippin are locked away inside a PCI connector ... but testing it out with a real floppy drive did not. Some disks simply didn’t work, although [Pierre] is ...

The ST-506, which initially stored 5 MBs of data, brought the idea of a separate disk controller inside the computer ... Associates for building floppy disk drives. 1981: SCSI Proposed As A ...

On the inside though, it looks for all the world ... there’s also a HD63266F floppy disk drive controller. A lot of the other chips have their markings obscured, but it doesn’t seem like ...

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When inserted into a computer's floppy disk drive, a metal slide door is opened ... becoming a rare sighting despite being ...

That was a fundamental limitation compared to a hard drive or floppy disc. But as originally specified ... earned with the publication of Sony ImageSoft’s The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

Most computers have one hard drive located inside the computer case ... so they can be removed just like a floppy disk. Removable cartridges are very fast, though usually not as fast as fixed hard ...

a floppy disk, a doorbell, a Game Boy cartridge, an electric toothbrush, a Big Mouth Billy Bass, a HitClip, an answering machine, a music box, and more. The announcement reads: Instead of ...