It’s still “around” but it won’t be on any laptop as it’s a bit too “heavy computing” for that. so some downtime, firmware and software updates were the order of the day.Īs to why that is. Also the “until IDE went extinct” was a reference to the fact there was no “drop in replacement. The drives I was dealing with loaded weekly data updates to servers running 24/7/365 so it’s a bit of a different aspect. If you hardly ever do that and seldom reboot it’ll last. The laser fires up every tome you open “my computer” so the drive can return the disk presence information. As to the working fine old optical drive usage is the key. Floppy disks remained a popular medium for nearly 40 years, but their use was declining by the mid- to late 1990s.I must admit I haven’t had your joy in retrying old media, in fatc I found after a couple of head passes it started to fail. It used Frequency Modulation (FM) encoding system for recording digital data on magnetic media. Double density (DD) 8-inch disks use an iron oxide coating. It was released for NEC PC-9800 VM personal computer that has two NEC (8-inch 2DD) floppy drives. In 1971, NEC introduced 8-inch double density floppy disk having a double sided formatted capacity 256KB. These were smaller versions of the 8-inch disks, with similar characteristics. Subsequently 5 1⁄4-inch (133 mm) and then 3 1⁄2 inch (90 mm) became a ubiquitous form of data storage. The first floppy disks, invented and made by IBM in the late 1960s as a replacement for punch cards, had a disk diameter of 8-inch (203 mm). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into the 1990s, used for primary data storage as well as for backup and data transfers between computers. Floppy disks are read from and written to by a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disk is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
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