The floppy disk is an obsolescent magnetic storage medium.
The floppy disk is an obsolescent magnetic storage medium.
Came in several sizes, including 8", 5.25" (both obsolete), and 3.5", which remained in use for many years.
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What is the little twist in this floppy ribbon cable for?
There is a twist of a few lines in this floppy cable. Why? What is the purpose of it?
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What was the highest number of floppy disks ever used for a product?
Something I got to thinking of while sorting out a pile of driver floppies for windpws XP & 2003...
Of all the software products ever released, what came on the highest number of floppy disks? Windows 95 used 13, but I doubt that was the upper…
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How to create a virtual floppy drive?
I am trying to install a program which requires me to have a floppy disk in my machine while the installation is going on.
I found a program called Virtual Floppy Drive that allowed me to create the drive and copy files to it, but it only works on…
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How do I connect a 5 1/4" floppy drive to a modern PC?
This question was originally posted on Gaming Stack Exchange.
I have a small collection of 5 1/4" floppy disks (early Sierra games) that I am trying to read. How can I connect a drive that accepts these disks to my PC.
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Are my 5.25" floppies dead?
I have a number of 5.25" floppies for the BBC Micro which haven't been used since the 90s. I recently got my BBC Micro and Watford Electronics floppy drive down from the loft/attic, set it up and tried the disks. Unfortunately my floppy drive had…
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Formatting a 5.25" floppy disk
So after the massive trouble of finding a 5.25" floppy drive and a connecting it up, then changing the BIOS so it's set as my A: drive, I tried to format a couple of high-density 1.2MB floppy disks using the "format A:" command in Command Prompt.…
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What Linux fits on a floppy disk?
Which Linux distributions fit on a 1.44 MB bootable floppy disk?
Where can the .img image files be downloaded?
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How do I burn .img files onto floppy disk?
I want to "burn" 3 DOS 6.22 floppy disks. I have 3 .img files but I can't "burn" these .img files onto a floppy. I get the message that the file is too big for the target.
What tool can I use (I used one in the past but I don't remember which…
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How to backup old Mac (System 7) floppies?
I have two 720 KB Mac (System 7) 3.5" floppies from high school. Since floppies demagnetize themselves with time I would like to "clone" them to another medium before it's too late. These were my first 2 floppies I used in school and they contain my…
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What is the replacement of the floppy
While CD (and to an lesser extend DVD) disks have reached the price-point of the floppy, they have one significant downside, it is WORM (Write-Once Read-Many) media, allowing it to be used only one single time, and you need to be explicit in writing…
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Somebody knows why the sectors of the IBM floppy disk are named 1 to 8 (and not 0 to 7 )
I am now programming on a 8 bits Z80 computer with CP/M 2.2, (as a hobby) and the floppy disk format is IBM, 40 tracks, 8 sectors per track, 512 bytes per sector. free space is 154 Ko on each face of the disk.
Why the sectors are indexed 1 to 8 (and…
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How To Change The Floppy Image Of Qemu?
I'm developing my own OS, but I'm having some problems with Qemu, because I need to change the floppy image from grub.img to os.img while the emulation is running, but how can I do this?
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Mount floppy disk image (*.img) as virtual floppy drive
Title says it all. I am looking for some software that will allow me to mount a floppy disk image (*.img) as a virtual floppy drive...similar I suppose to mounting an ISO image to a virtual optical drive.
I have tried a few things but nothing seems…
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Reading old 5.25" floppies
Summary: Having problems reading some old 5.25" floppies. Looking for advice on what else I can try before declaring the disks un-retrievable and giving-up.
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I recently found a box of old 5.25" DSDD floppy disks dating for the about 1988-89.…
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Universal Floppy controller for USB
I have an old 5.25" floppy drive and I'd like to connect it to my computer. Now, I could open the case and install the drive, of course, but I'm seeking a more convenient solution.
There are numerous USB Floppy drives for the 3.5" format, so maybe…
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