Hackaday (unofficial) September 21, 2022 1:00pm Floppy Disk Sales Are Higher-Density Than You Might Think #currentevents #featured #interest #retrocomputing #35floppydisk #8inchfloppydisk #floppy #floppydisk #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Floppy Disk Sales Are Higher-Density Than You Might Think Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside floppy enthusiasts needn’t fret — just use AOL keyword point that browser toward floppydisk.com. There, you can buy …
Hackaday (unofficial) September 5, 2022 3:00am Magnetic Maniac Manages Mangled Memory #computerhacks #news #35floppydisk #8inchfloppydisk #floppy #magnets #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Magnetic Maniac Manages Mangled Memory Ahh, floppy disks. Few things carry nostalgia quite like a floppy — either 3 1⁄2 or 5 1⁄4, depending on which generation of hacker you happen to be. (And yes, we hear you grey-beards, 8-inch …
Hackaday (unofficial) November 11, 2021 7:00am 8″ Floppy on Your PC? #retrocomputing #8inchfloppydisk #floppy #floppydisk #trs80 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 8″ Floppy On Your PC? We should probably have a new metric for measuring mass storage performance: bytes per pound. An old IBM tape drive from the S/360 days, for example, could hold almost 6 megabytes of data. It also …