I deal with floppies quite frequently in playing with my retro machines - both DS/DD 3.5″ and 5.25″. That, and I’m too cheap buy a USB floppy drive and my main computer doesn’t have a floppy bay, so I have to take the cover off and dangle it out the side. I deal with floppy disk images fairly regularly, but I don’t deal with the actual disks themselves anymore, mostly because I have trouble finding ones that are still sane. Now that I’ve got my Atari ST and Amiga computers set up I’m probably going to be putting another order in for ’em in a bit here… So much so that I’ve placed orders for as many as 300 new disks at a time from a bulk floppy disk seller. I mess around with older computers that use them fairly often. I’ve got two usb floppy drives hooked up to my PowerMac G4, but they don’t get used a whole lot, just when I take pictures with my Sony Mavica or transfer files to older Macs/PCs. Pinging is currently not allowed.ġ3 Responses to “ Sony 3.5″ Floppy Disk” You can skip to the end and leave a response. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Monday, December 28th, 2009 at 9:32 pm and is filed under Computer History, Design, Macintosh, Regular Features, Retro Scan of the Week, Vintage Computing. However, that hasn’t stopped Windows XP from requiring RAID drivers on a floppy disk when it’s being installed.ĭiscussion Topic of the Week: Do you still use 3.5″ floppy disks regularly? What for? Today, 3.5″ floppy drives are rarely found in new PCs thanks to more capacious CD-Rs, removable flash media (especially USB thumb drives), and nearly ubiquitous computer networking. PC clone manufacturers, many of whom had supported both the larger and smaller floppy formats, eventually stopped including 5.25″ drives in their machines. The format quickly gained popularity in the PC market and overtook the 5.25″ floppy disk in overall usage by the early 1990s. The Sony-designed 3.5″ floppy drive (1982) first made waves in the mid-1980s with its use in the Apple Macintosh, released in 1984. This reminds me of a psychic parlor trick.
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