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Don't Copy That Floppy (Official Video - Digitally Remastered)

Did I hear you right? Did I hear you saying that you're going to make a copy of a game without paying? Don't Copy That Floppy! Produced by SIIA (formerly SPA...

When Megabytes Were Big. Floppy Disks

When Megabytes Were Big. Floppy DisksOn the 24th of April, 2010 Sony Corporation officially announced that it will stop producing 3.5-inch floppies in March ...

Ghostbuster's Theme on eight floppy drives

This one's a little long, but I enjoy it. Hope you do too. There's four videos in this set, this being the first, which of course are available ahead of time...

There's a Floppy Disk on the Floor (Original Song)

http://www.twitter.com/tobyturner Watch Floppy Disk LIVE on TheStream.tv on the 30th! http://www.tobyturner.com/ Based on a true floppy. I don't like cleanin...

Floppy Disk Drive + Keyboard + Android = Pure Nostalgic Fun

Tried to run some old games directly from the floppy disks on my Android tablet. It worked :) Used a USB floppy disk drive, a powered USB hub and a wireless ...

Game Of Thrones Theme on eight floppy drives

I used a MIDI provided by Rinerion as a basis for this. Go see his channel for more awesome MIDI renditions! Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/rinerion Or...

What is Love on eight floppy drives

Someone had requested this, but oddly enough I was working on it before they asked. So I made a little extra effort to get it finished and uploaded. --------...

Floppy Disk

The floppy disk was a magnetic disk storage medium. Mooo-Theme: http://soundcloud.com/mooojvm/mooo-theme.

Surgeon Simulator 2013 - Medical Floppy Disks

The floppy disks which display key medical information on the main menu. These disks include Controls, Know Your Syringes, Britannia 88 Disk 3, Britannia 88 ...

Guile's Theme on eight floppy drives

They say it goes with everything... Lol. I actually did this a while back, but it was a bit of a rush job. It was a friend's birthday and I wanted to get him...

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179 news items

 
Westwood Press
Thu, 23 May 2013 10:06:57 -0700

For example, any data stored on floppy disks cannot be retrieved. “You cannot access it,” said Jaillet, who keeps an electronic and hard copy of all his files. “You couldn't open those files if you wanted to.” But even the newest technology can have ...
 
WBUR
Wed, 22 May 2013 16:16:50 -0700

They're on the hunt for old hard drives and floppy disks that may hold missing copies of early, valuable files. The story of the Web began in 1989 at a European particle physics laboratory called CERN. Hundreds of the world's smartest scientists were ...

The Guardian

The Guardian
Thu, 23 May 2013 05:41:13 -0700

These are the modern equivalent of floppy disks, if anyone remembers those. For internal storage, you will also need a hard drive. Check the size of the one in your current PC by opening Windows Explorer, selecting My Computer, and seeing what it says ...

Lehigh Acres Citizen

Lehigh Acres Citizen
Wed, 22 May 2013 09:43:57 -0700

"How would we ever be able to use it today because the computers don't have slots for floppy disks," another one commented. Then someone in the crowd said you could buy an attachment at some stores and plug it into your computer so you can call up old ...
 
ZDNet
Tue, 21 May 2013 11:32:21 -0700

Remember 1.44MB floppy disks? Fifteen years ago I could copy an entire operating system onto a single diskette (DOS, XENIX, Minix, etc.). Ten years ago, I ran Linux from two such floppy disks (with X). At that time, Windows came on a single CD disk.
 
Easton Journal
Wed, 15 May 2013 17:38:27 -0700

Town Clerk Jeremy Gillis is inviting local residents to bring their personal papers, floppy disks and CDs to Town Hall from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 18 for safe disposal in the second annual Community Shred-It Day. Gillis said the shredding event ...
 
Bloody Disgusting
Mon, 13 May 2013 07:59:39 -0700

I remember using five (yes, five) floppy disks to install Doom II onto my bitchin' 386 processor desktop that stuttered and hung when I tried to run The 7th Guest. Seriously, that machine was the pinnacle of technology when I was 7 years old. No kid on ...
 
Watch List News (press release)
Mon, 20 May 2013 00:53:14 -0700

Although crashes are as old as computers, Horizon DataSys has now perfected its Roll-Back technology that could finally send system crashes to the same landfill where floppy disks have been dumped. The Horizon DataSys development team was in ...
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