These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You ...

FORMAT drive: [/V[:label]] [/Q] [/U] [/F:size] [/S] [/D] FORMAT drive: [/V[:label]] [/Q] [/U] [/T:tracks /N:sectors] [/S] [/D] FORMAT drive: [/V[:label]] [/Q] [/U ...

Sony has said it will stop making floppy disks, after nearly three decades of manufacture. Yet millions of them are still being bought every year. But who is actually buying them? The floppy disk is ...

For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented, but there remains a corps of experimenters for whom the classic removable storage format still holds some fascination. The interface for a ...

Everyone knows what a floppy disk is, but a common question, is how do I clean out a floppy so that it can be used again? I have spoken to many people who have said that after they store information ...

Say bye, bye to the 3.5. After nearly 30 years, the once dominate 3.5-inch floppy disk will soon go the way of the cassette tape. With the advent of CDs and later, DVDs, the use of the plastic floppys ...

A full format of a D81 disk image using the FORMAT command with an ID stalls. A full format of an internal floppy disk makes OK sounds and ends after an appropriate duration, but a DIR on the result ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...