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Floppy Disk Labeler
Downloads Floppy Disk Labeler is a Mac OS X program that assists in the process of creating 3.5" floppy diskette labels.
[April 1, 2008, 8:00]
PC World waves goodbye to floppy disks
News The computing retailer claims the amount of data (1.44MB) a floppy disk holds is no longer adequate for most day-to-day requirements. In the face of newer technology, the floppy disk looks "increasingly quaint and simply isn't able to compete...
[January 31, 2007, 8:39]
PC makers hit with 'copycat' suits
News Toshiba's massive $2.1billion (£1.28bn) settlement for using a potentially flawed floppy-disk controller is already causing ripples, which may yet turn into tidal waves. Toshiba on Friday settled a class-action suit that alleged it had knowingly...
[November 2, 1999, 8:14]
Floppy drives near extinction
News In a move that may speed the death of floppy disk drives, M-Systems on Tuesday said its USB flash memory storage device can now start a PC's boot-up process. In the past, floppy disks have been used to reboot a computer when the system experiences...
[August 13, 2003, 11:05]
Don't kill the floppy yet
News When I read recently that Dell is planning to offer some of its high-end consumer desktop systems without floppy disk drives, it was just more evidence that PC manufacturers have pronounced a premature death sentence on the venerable grandfather...
[March 18, 2003, 12:51]
BadCopy Pro
Downloads BadCopy Pro is a professional data recovery software for floppy disk, CD-ROM, CD-RW, and digital media cards. It has three recovery modes specially for floppy disk repair, CD corrupt, or lost data recovery, and digital image or photo retrieval for...
[March 14, 2008, 19:49]
Microsoft Windows 2000 Patch: Winbond Super I/O Controller
Downloads This update addresses an issue in Windows 2000 running on Compaq computer systems that use the Winbond Super I/O disk controller to access the floppy disk drive, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q301077.
[July 24, 2001, 8:00]
U.S. Robotics Modem INF File
Downloads Copy this file onto a blank floppy disk. When prompted select "Change" or "Have Disk" and point it to the floppy drive. Available in this download is the INF file for your U.S. Robotics model 00083908 modem, operating under Windows.
[October 21, 1998, 0:25]
WriteCD-RW
Downloads is everything you need to set up and run a CD Rewritable (CD-RW) drive and use it just like a high capacity floppy disk. In other words, your CD-RW drive handles files just like a hard disk or floppy disk.
[November 26, 2003, 7:00]
3Com Modem Driver
Downloads Copy this file onto a blank floppy disk. When prompted, select Change or Have Disk and point it to the floppy drive. Available in this download is the current modem driver for 3Com modems bought before January 1996, operating under Windows 95/NT 4.0.
[October 21, 1998, 0:14]
U.S. Robotics Data/Fax 33.6/56k Modem Driver
Downloads Copy this file onto a blank floppy disk. When prompted select "Change" or "Have Disk" and point it to the floppy drive. Available in this download is the latestWindows 95/98/NT 4.0 driver for USRobotics Voice 33.6k and 56k modems bought between...
[October 20, 1998, 6:02]
U.S. Robotics Voice 33.6/56K Modem Driver
Downloads Copy this file onto a blank floppy disk. When prompted, select Change or Have Disk, and point it to the floppy drive. Available in this download is the latest driver for your U.S. Robotics 33.6/56K Voice modem bought between January 1996 and the...
[October 20, 1998, 6:19]
Remote Operating System Installation
White Papers The Network PC—a slimmed down version of a personal computer without a floppy disk or CD-ROM drive—will be one of the first client computers to take advantage of RIS. Because of its lack of an external floppy disk drive, the Net PC will require...
[May 3, 2007, 5:56]
Chernobyl - What can you do?
News An infected machine does not load windows, has no access to the hard disk, and in some cases will not even light the floppy disk light when powered up. Use that file to make a bootable floppy, stick the floppy in the unhealthy machine and boot it.
[April 27, 1999, 15:47]
YOU ARE SO RIGHT
Talkback I had the drivers on a CD ROM, but i could NOT load them because windows in its infinite stupidness decided it needed a floppy disk to copy them from. I have not used a floppy disk for 7 years.i sure as hell was not going be forced by bills army to...
[March 1, 2007, 15:46]
Lock floppy drives on Windows 2000 Pro machines with Floplock.exe
News When installed and running on a Windows 2000 Professional computer, Floplock.exe uses a discretionary access control list (DACL) to prevent access to the floppy disk. Only members of the Administrators and Power Users groups can use access the...
[December 21, 2005, 10:50]
Acer Aspire 1502LMi review
Reviews The Aspire 1500 series is unusual among today's notebooks in featuring a built-in floppy disk drive, in addition to an integrated optical drive and an internal hard disk. The optical drive is a fixed (as opposed to modular) Pioneer DVD-RW/+RW unit...
[June 15, 2004, 17:00]
Power20
Downloads Illegal Opcodes)VIC (Video/Sound IC) Emulation (Video: Scanline-Based, incl.all Video Modes; Complete Sound Emulation)VIA Emulation (Timers, Interrupts)Optional Original VIC-20 Keyboard Layout or Macintosh Keyboard LayoutJoystick (both via real...
[February 28, 2008, 6:00]
Does Zip have a future?
News But the meteoric rise of CD-rewritable drives in the late 1990s, followed by the ever-growing popularity of DVD recording, cast a shadow over the high-capacity Zip floppy. The low cost of CD media and CD's ubiquity compared with Zip made it the top...
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]
SuperDisks to supercede Zips
News That's especially true now that the computer industry has moved way past its old portable media standby, the floppy disk. The actual SuperDisk diskette really is the same size (or unbelievably close to being the same size except for a slight extra...
[October 28, 1999, 7:18]
