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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]
Floppy drives near extinction
Talkback Floppy Drives should always be available. Not a good idea. They can always replace them with Zip drives but there should always be an alternative to use in case of hard drive malfunction
[January 18, 2004, 6:13]
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]
Floppy Remote Drive Disabler
Downloads Allows you to easily enable or disable floppy drives on your Windows 2000, 2003, or XP systems - across your LAN.
[August 31, 2006, 9:27]
Comdex Fall, Las Vegas: Mitsubishi puts floppy on PC card
News Mitsubishi this week showed one of the smartest storage solutions here: a 1.44Mb floppy disk that fits into a Type II PC Card slot. Separately, Mitumi showed off 130Mb floppy drive technology that can also read old 720Kb and 1.44Mb floppies.
[November 20, 1996, 9:22]
NEC to float 120Mb floppy notebook
News NEC will become the first OEM to ship a notebook with an LS-120 120Mb floppy drive as standard when it ships its Versa 6000 and 6200 series this summer. The drives will ship on selected models, replacing the standard 1.44Mb floppy in the modular...
[June 18, 1997, 14:13]
NEC USB Floppy
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:NEC USB Floppy
[January 14, 2000, 6:00]
NEC USB Floppy
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:NEC USB Floppy
[January 14, 2000, 6:00]
Thieves steal Egypt secrets... on floppy
News Egyptian police are investigating a highly serious, albeit low-tech, computer crime involving the theft of floppy disks containing highly sensitive information on the country's national resources from laboratories at Cairo University.
[November 15, 1999, 11:03]
Dell: Dump the floppy
News Dell Computer is offering its own alternative to the floppy disk. It's smaller and lighter than a floppy drive, yet it has the ability to store more data than 10 or more standard 3.5-inch floppy disks, Dell representatives said.
[October 30, 2002, 11:56]
Philips 2 x 6 CD-R burns like a floppy drive
News Likened by Philips to saving to floppy disk, UDF (Universal Disk Format) gets rid of the 12Mb overhead caused by multi-part recording and will be supported in DVD drives. Called the CDD2600 (£619 + VAT list), the SCSI-hosted device is Plug and...
[December 5, 1996, 14:42]
Compaq offers £160 120Mb floppy upgrade
News The 120Mb floppy bandwagon is gaining momentum as Compaq said this week it now has LS-120 drives available for new and legacy desktops. The drives were previously only available on some Deskpro 4000 models.
[March 6, 1997, 14:15]
A Year Ago Today: 120Mb floppy gets mobile
News The 120Mb floppy camp is fighting back against the Iomega Zip hype, forecasting 10 million sales of the super-floppy drive for 1997. California-based OR recently set up a UK subsidiary and says it plans to make the LS-120 a natural replacement for...
[September 25, 1997, 8:00]
Y-E Data USB Floppy
Downloads Y-E Data USB Floppy.OS installed driver. For information only.
[January 14, 1999, 6:00]
Five years ago: NEC to float 120Mb floppy notebook
News NEC will become the first OEM to ship a notebook with an LS-120 120Mb floppy drive as standard when it ships its Versa 6000 and 6200 series this summer. The drives will ship on selected models, replacing the standard 1.44Mb floppy in the modular...
[June 18, 2002, 7:02]
PC World waves goodbye to floppy disks
News PC World is to stop selling floppy disks once current stock has run out. The computing retailer claims the amount of data (1.44MB) a floppy disk holds is no longer adequate for most day-to-day requirements.
[January 31, 2007, 8:39]
Five years ago: Compaq's super-floppy faces tough trek
News Compaq will begin shipping systems with its 120Mb super-floppy disk drive at the end of this month, firing up a hard-to-win battle with Iomega in the hotly contested seconday-storage market. Three models in Compaq's Deskpro 4000 business desktop...
[August 15, 2001, 8:00]
Sony camera stores pics on floppy
News While most camera vendors have been forced to settle for cable connections to view images on a monitor, Sony's Digital Mavica line packs a standard 1.44Mb floppy drive so that image scan be quickly viewed.compressed images in 100Kb 'fine' and 40...
[July 21, 1997, 14:10]
NEC USB Floppy
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:NEC USB Floppy
[January 14, 2000, 6:00]
Lock floppy drives on Windows 2000 Pro machines with Floplock.exe
News From the conception of the first computer virus, floppy disks have posed a very real security risk for computer users and IT managers alike. Although email and Web browsing are often the distribution method of choice for today's viruses, floppy...
[December 21, 2005, 10:50]
