IBM PC floppy drives didn’t implement any form of notification for a disk eject, so it became quite possible for a disk to be ejected while the operating system still believed cached data from ...

If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you ...

but a de facto standard emerged as clones of the Shuggart drives used by IBM. It’s a modified version of this interface that can be found in a PC floppy controller. While there is enough ...

After it was upgraded to 1.2MB in 1984, 360KB diskettes were still used to distribute software, because 1.2MB drives supported both formats. The 720KB 3.5" floppy was introduced on IBM's ...

Further, it was adopted by everyone making computers. The Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh, and IBM PC all shipped with floppy drives. Despite my love of the old and crusty storage media of ...

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 computer ...

Aimed at the IBM PC, the Brain virus only slowed down the floppy disk drive and did no other damage. By replacing the boot sector in the floppy disk, a message would display claiming infection and ...

The first IBM PC ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor, 16 kilobytes of main memory, expandable to 256k, one or two 160kb floppy disk drives and an optional color monitor. All for a starting ...

In the late 1960s, IBM engineers Alan Shugart and David ... Then, in 1976, a guy named Steve Wozniak wanted to add a floppy drive to his next computer. His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch ...