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I'd like to be able to simultanously use both a 3.5" drive and a 5.25" drive in a Pentium Classic-era IBM Aptiva.The 3.5" drive has been in the computer for a while, while I just recently picked ...
Flash drives are kind of dull as a topic, the modern descendant of floppy disks and burnable CDs. But when you need a good one, you really need a good one—and PNY’s latest are worth a look. The new ...
Although many have made some sort of music with improvised electronics, few sound as cool as this Imperial March from Star Wars played by two floppy drives. According to [Pawel], “It’s … ...
The missing floppy drive of the SX-64 is what happens when marketing is put in charge of engineering. There were a few of these dual drive Commodore luggables back in ’83, and we have the ...
Some later SE models did ship with dual 3.5-inch floppy drives, or an option to add a second drive later. In 2019, the Steve Jobs-autographed 3.5-inch floppy shown at the top of this article sold ...
The 3.5-inch floppy drive you receive will be a plug-and-play device, so it should “just work.” But a few common problems might trip you up. These days, all new USB-compatible 3.5-inch floppy ...
Many school districts say goodbye to floppy disks and replace them with flash memory drives, CDs, CD-RWs and DVDs. Others put LANs, WANs and file servers in place for their data-distribution needs.
I am sure I am not the only person who has a bunch of (200 or so) 5.25 inch floppy disks with data which I would like to be able to retreive. I have currently a working 5.25 - 3.5 commbo floppy ...
To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.
Enter the Vizo Arius II, a dual 2.5" drive bay that installs in a desktop 3.5" slot just like a floppy drive. The Arius has a couple of nice features that we will look at today. Specifications ...
Toshiba has been showing off some interesting notebooks recently, including a model with dual touchscreen displays and one with an NVIDIA Tegra chipset running Google Android. But Toshiba’s been ...