Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine in the UK, I used to hand my ...
It's designed and produced by Xavirompe. This project implements a standard MSX-DOS 1 DiskROM that allows using standard USB floppy disk drives, thus effectively turning Rookie Drive into an ...
As technology marches on at an unprecedented pace, many devices and standards have fallen by the wayside, replaced by faster, sleeker, and more efficient alternatives. Not all outdated ...
For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented, but there remains a corps of experimenters for whom the classic removable storage format still holds some fascination. The interface ...
PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...
This project is to allow the direct connection of floppy disk drives with 34-pin Shugart bus ribbon cables to the Raspberry Pi for the purpose of reading floppy disks. It controls the drive using GPIO ...