(When the tab is “open,” the floppy disk is in read-only mode.) I hope this guide helps you read and write to floppy disks on your Windows 11 machine. But even if it does, floppy disks are ...

That delightfully Web 1.0 site is owned by Tom Persky, who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that address ...

Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he tests the drive’s components and explores whether the fault lies with the read/write head or electronic systems.

Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS/ED (IBM only) 360KB 5.25" DS/DD 1.2MB 5.25" DS/HD DS = double sided DD = double density HD = high density ED = extra=high ...

The Raspberry Pi is also connected to a camera module which is used to capture images of the floppy disk as it's copied. The software driving the operation is Greaseweazle, an open source tool ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

Why spend money upgrading technology that's "basically fine"? Although floppy disk music "peaked" in the 2010s, it's "still going strong" in the 2020s, said The Verge. In the 2020 category ...