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Floppy disks are still sold and used by airlines

Floppy disks are still sold and used by airlines

If you are very young, you may have never seen or held one of these storage units. For many years, floppy disks were the primary data storage platform, but today they no longer exist or so we thought. There is still a vfloppy disk vendor and its main the customers are the airlines. Floppy disks ...

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Floppy Knights – Designing an accessible tactical game

Floppy Knights – Designing an accessible tactical game

Hi! My name is Christian Scandariato. I’m the lead game designer at Floppy Knights, a tactical card battle developed by Rose City Games. The original concepts for Floppy Knights were rooted in games we grew up with, but we wanted to create something new and different that would help the game stand out by combining ...

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Floppy Disk, Floppy Disk or Floppy Disk: features

Floppy Disk, Floppy Disk or Floppy Disk: features

This caused a very big problem, the first 8-bit processors like the MOS 6502, the Motorola 6800, the Zilog Z80 or the Intel 8080 could address 16 bits of memory and therefore 64 KB, it is very little today. At that time, RAM was very expensive, but it was the only way to run programs ...

Earthbound secrets discovered on an old floppy disk

Earthbound secrets discovered on an old floppy disk

picture: Nintendo / MobyGames In 2018, Marcus Lindblom, a former Nintendo of America employee best known for his localization EarthBound, discovered the floppy disk with his personal files from this huge project in an old box. He had erased the hard drive at some point to make room for more data, but thanks to the ...

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Youtuber accessed floppy disk from Apple Watch

Youtuber accessed floppy disk from Apple Watch

Most technological advancements show great benefit to our daily lives, whether it be fun, communication, improving our product and fitness. However, for some strange reason and although it is not always appropriate, there are some who cannot stop compare them to older devices or even try to get them to live together. A clear example ...

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The floppy disk signed by Steve Jobs sold for $ 84,000

Last week Apple fans were getting ready to participate in a floppy disk auction signed by Steve Jobs, originally valued at $ 7,500. However, on the day of the event, many fought for this religious item, which sold for more than $ 84,000. As explained on the official sales site, Rrauction, it was a well-deserved ...