We no longer use floppy disks on the vast majority of computers, but a recent Old New Thing blog post from ... It seems Windows disk cache items expire after two seconds, and as the post explains ...

Very bendable in its plastic jacket, the first 5.25" floppy held 360KB. After it was upgraded to 1.2MB in 1984, 360KB diskettes were still used to distribute software, because 1.2MB drives ...

helping the mechanics with drive shaft calculations. Not even a flood could stop the computer. The C64C defies time and shows that old technology is sometimes more robust than its modern successors.

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve ... the best way to get data off an old drive was to fire up an old computer. Now, with new devices specifically ...

to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require one. Utility programs such as Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) can be used to ...

FOR anyone over the age of 40 and familiar with computers, floppy disks were a fact of life until what feels like relatively recently. For those younger than 40, a floppy disk was the ...