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Acorns land at Bletchley Park

Acorns land at Bletchley Park

...a number of interfaces were developed for it, including the Plus 3 floppy drive interface shown here. Photo credit: Rupert Goodwins See more photo galleries... Read more

25 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Happy Birthday, Sinclair QL - 28 years today

...meant choosing whether to buy a second five and a quarter inch floppy drive. It was eleven days before the launch of the Apple Macintosh... Read more

12 January, 2012

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

...the first Mac. I was shocked by the very considerable noise the floppy drive (a separate box) made. I had assumed these machines had no... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

30 years on, how Bill Gates saw MS-DOS

It will soon be the 30th anniversary of the launch of the world-changing IBM PC in August 1981, and technically it's... Read more

31 July, 2011

To the cloud! Or not...

...age of connection and common sense. Just as Apple threw away the floppy drive before most users were ready and the replaceable battery before the... Read more

9 June, 2011
Odboso FileRetrieval Recovery Wizard 1.92

Odboso FileRetrieval Recovery Wizard 1.92

...level results. Odboso FileRetrieval supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drive including FAT 12/16/32, NTFS, and NTFS 5 Read more

20 May, 2012
FotoRoid 1.0.6

FotoRoid 1.0.6

...developing apps for Apple computers since the 64KB Apple ][+ with 5.25" floppy drive arrived at his grade school in B.C., Canada. His first... Read more

25 October, 2011
Reducticon 1.0.1

Reducticon 1.0.1

...developing apps for Apple computers since the 64KB Apple ][+ with 5.25" floppy drive arrived at his grade school in B.C., Canada. His first... Read more

11 February, 2011

Floppy drives near extinction

...need a CD drive and CD containing the operating system -- or a floppy drive and floppy disks. But the flash drive is useful even when... Read more

13 August, 2003 by Ed Frauenheim

Dell to drive floppy out

The floppy drive is heading toward extinction at Dell Computer. Later this month, the... Read more

6 February, 2003 by John G.Spooner
<endeca_term>Floppy Drive</endeca_term> Disabler 2

Floppy Drive Disabler 2

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31 August, 2006

Latest endangered species: The floppy drive

Are you ready to send the antiquated storage peripheral known as the floppy disk to hardware heaven? Read more

1 March, 2002 by David Coursey
VST USB <endeca_term>Floppy Drive</endeca_term> 2.1.6

VST USB Floppy Drive 2.1.6

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28 December, 2000

120Mb floppy drive notebooks set for CeBit

Notebooks with 120Mb floppy drives are set to be a feature of the CeBit trade exhibition running March 13-19 in Hannover, Germany next week. Read more

4 March, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Philips 2 x 6 CD-R burns like a floppy drive

Philips has released one of the first breed of '2 x 6' (double-speed burn/six-speed read) CD recordable (CD-R) units. Read more

5 December, 1996 by Martin Veitch

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