Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Linux just made a patch for the floppy driver code. Let's take a trip down the nostalgic world of Floppy Disk Storage devices and learn about some of the history. Many of us have used this storage medium before but do you know how it all started and why it was so important to modern computing and devices today?

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IBM - ibm.com/history/floppy-disk
Linux patch - lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250825163545.39303-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
Calc - dvd3000.ca/tek/diskcalc.htm
Research - research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/67152207/TFSCmarch2016R_R1_Clean_version_X3.pdf

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