Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics.

They were made from a thin piece of magnetized material encased in a protective plastic envelope, with a central hole for the drive's spindle. The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by ...

PCs used two types of floppy ... hole in the upper left corner. IBM offered an extra-high density 2.88MB drive on selected PCs that was backward compatible, but the format never caught on. Floppy ...

Floppy disks (FDs ... A thin plastic disk was covered by a thin plastic case, and the read/write head of the drive accessed the disk through a hole in the case. As the name suggests, the size ...

If you want to continue down the floppy disk rabbit hole, the interview comes from a book called Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium (it’s more readily and inexpensively ...

The 8-inch floppy disk drive was invented by IBM in the late 1960s as a replacement for punch cards. The disks were hailed as a breakthrough in storage, capable of holding the same information as ...