If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you ...

A floppy disk is divided into cylinders or tracks (circles on the disk), sectors (part of those circles containing 512 bytes each) and sides (2 for double sided disks). DD, HD and ED disks all use the ...

The TRS-80 floppy remapper is a simple board (and microcontroller) which dynamically remaps the floppy disk drives in vintage TRS-80 computers. The main reason for remapping the floppy drives on these ...

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.