Brent Rossow notes that the VST/SmartDisk USB floppy drive is incompatible with Mac OS X 10.2.x: "According to VST/SmartDisk's web site, their "USB Floppy Drive - Mac Only" product is not ...

I recently ordered this NEC USB floppy drive so I could finally go through ... until I unplug and replug the drive. My MBP is a 2.16 C2D running 10.5.2. I'll have to try it on my G5 and Windows ...

Serveal notable industries and organizations still use floppy disks, including the U.S. FAA and San Francisco's Muni Metro ...

Mac OS X’s included Disk Utility may ... with a Sonnet Harmoni G3 running Mac OS X 10.2.4. He connected five of his company’s 1x USB floppy drives to the iMac, formatted five floppy diskettes ...

If you have ever studied the early history of the GNU/Linux operating system in its many forms ... a current Linux kernel and stick it on a floppy in a machine from the early 1990s, with ...

We no longer use floppy ... of MS-DOS 2.0. Disks, especially floppy disks, are slow compared to computer memory. A disk cache is a piece of memory into which the operating system puts frequently ...

In a nutshell: If you've got an ancient PC sitting around collecting dust, there's a lightweight operating system that can breathe ... a few minutes off a 3.5" floppy disk and in around five ...

Only 2% of PCs and laptops currently sold by PC World still have built-in floppy disk drives and by the summer it will phase even these out. It is with mixed feelings that the computer store has ...