How-To Geek on MSN

5 bizarre retro devices that prove floppy disks weren't just for beige PCs

It's shocking how many obscure pieces of 90s hardware ran on floppy disks ...
Hackaday

Exploring PC Floppy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of these ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Before the USB flash drive: 5 'floppy killers' that lost the retro storage war

Why Zip disks and LS-120s couldn't defeat the 1.44MB disk ...
PC World

Windows 95 and floppy disks are still crucial for modern US air travel

Ancient technologies like Windows XP, Commodore 64, and legacy COBOL programs are still being used for all kinds of critical functions, and here’s another example to add to the list. The US Federal ...
Ars Technica

5.25" floppy drives in a modern Windows XP system?

I just build a nice Athlon64 system for a client, and he wanted to add in his old 5.25" floppy drive. I figured it would be no problem, so I installed it. However, I could not get it to ...
Ars Technica

Writing 5.25" floppies

There is a project in my future that involves writing files to a 5.25" floppy. I need recommendations for PCs that meet these requirements. I am looking at two options: 1) an old classic PC with an ...