He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors have the same spacing as SD cards. Add in a hacked USB card reader, some careful cutting and assembly, and [gilmour509] has a very ...

You can buy floppy disks on Amazon, and floppy disk readers too. I'd be tempted to buy a reader just to discover what's on the handful of floppy disks I know are lurking somewhere in a box in the loft ...

Meanwhile, with nobody manufacturing the disks any more, computer systems that read them will only become more difficult to maintain. The floppy is also running on "borrowed time", said Ong.

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 ...

The library provides functions to allow low level work with floppy disks, to read them sector by sector. In addition it incorporates the FatFS library for MS-DOS FAT file-level access, and finally ...

Read and write speeds were equally slow, making it a mediocre medium for data. However, the introduction of the 5.25-inch ...