However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign. Unlike the later 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy disks, the 8-inch disks had a ...

Back in 1990 [Benjamin Zotto] wrote – while in elementary school – a dog racing game called Wonderland 2. The BASIC source ... soft-sectored 5.25″ floppy disk. Fast-forward thirty years ...

(2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk developed by IBM and available on certain IBM PCs. With a 2.88MB capacity, the Extra High Density (ED) floppy drives were compatible with 1.44MB floppies ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...