The Old New Thing

What is that horrible grinding noise coming from my floppy disk drive?

July 14, 2011 Jul 14, 2011 07/14/11

Raymond Chen

Wait, what's a floppy disk drive? For those youngsters out there, floppy disks are where we stored data before the invention of the USB earring. A single floppy disk could hold up to two seconds of CD-quality audio. This may not sound like a lot, but it was in fact pretty darned awesome, because CDs hadn't been invented yet either. Anyway, ...