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 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 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]
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]
MkLinux Floppy Driver
Downloads This BETA driver provides support for the built-in floppy drive on PowerMac G3 computers, including the PowerBook G3 Wallstreet and Mainstreet and the beige desktop, mini-tower, and all-in-one. It also supports the built-in floppy drive on older...
[December 10, 2002, 7:00]
NEC USB Floppy
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:NEC USB Floppy
[January 14, 2000, 7:00]
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]
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]
NEC USB Floppy
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:NEC USB Floppy
[January 14, 2000, 7:00]
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]
Dell to drive floppy out
News The floppy drive is heading toward extinction at Dell Computer. Later this month, the PC maker plans to drop the floppy as standard equipment on one of its Dimension desktops. Dell, which nixed floppies as standard equipment on its Inspiron 4150...
[February 6, 2003, 14:45]
NEC USB Floppy
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:NEC USB Floppy
[January 14, 2000, 7:00]
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]
NEC USB Floppy
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:NEC USB Floppy
[January 14, 2000, 7:00]
NEC USB Floppy
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:NEC USB Floppy
[January 14, 2000, 7:00]
Compaq 3-mode Floppy (Armada 6500 Series)
Downloads Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.disk1/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:Compaq 3-mode Floppy (Armada 6500 Series)
[September 4, 1998, 8:00]
Iomega Quik Floppy Copy
Downloads Quik Floppy Copy is a quick and easy way to copy your collection of floppy disks to convenient Zip® disks. Ideal for organizing files from your floppy based digital camera or legacy computer.
[June 20, 2001, 8:00]
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]
NEC USB Floppy
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:NEC USB Floppy
[January 14, 2000, 7:00]



