Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions.

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 ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used ... but in 2020 it’s simply a USB floppy drive, a Raspberry Pi, and a battery pack. He’s given us the full instructions ...

Floppy disks could read and write, which made them great for academia. However, by the time I started college courses, they weren’t part of the recommended supplies. A cheap 8 GB USB thumb drive ...

USB Write access or USB Write protection ... Hardware writes protection is mostly available in the card reader or floppy disks. In hardware write protection there will be a mechanical switch ...

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 ...

but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli ...