No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

The interface for a floppy drive might have required some complexity ... The library provides functions to allow low level work with floppy disks, to read them sector by sector.

Floppy drives have particularly low-level interfaces, offering up little more than a few signals to indicate the position of the head on the disk, and pulses to indicate changes in magnetic flux.

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 ...

Floppy disks could read and write, which made them great for academia. However, by the time I started college courses, they ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

We checked the Silverstone FLP01 manual and it shows that to gain access to the system internals the top cover slides back ...

(2) A device that spins, reads and writes a removable storage medium such as a CD, DVD or floppy ... disk). The recording medium may be bare or encased in a cartridge, which is inserted into the ...

For more details on the hardware of the C128 and its development, we recommend this video by 8-Bit-Guy (with Bill Herd as a ...

Other specifications included 64KB of static CMOS memory, a floppy disk drive, a touchpad-like pointer, and a 300-baud modem. Although it was anything but small by today's standards, the Gavilan ...