Floppies

The proprietary data format meant that RX50 floppies were not interchangeable with other PC floppies, further isolating DEC products from the developing de facto standard PC market.

One young developer actually lets technology influence his wardrobe choices; he’s partial to bib overalls, in part because floppies will fit in their big back pockets.

DSDD drives were backwards compatible; they could read and write SSDD floppies.

Due to a mistake made by the Commodore sales department, the first floppies of AmigaOS (released with the Amiga1000) named the whole OS "Workbench".

Early Linux distributions were installed using sets of floppies but this has been abandoned by all major distributions.

Executable -infecting viruses are dependent on users exchanging software or boot-able floppies and thumb drives so they spread rapidly in computer hobbyist circles.

However, individual 2.88 MB floppies were expensive and the technology did not supplant the 1.44 MB floppy.

In practice, however, this method was an inexpensive way to store twice as much data for no extra cost, and was widely used for commercially released floppies as well.

The name, used by official sources and fans, refers to rumours that the reason for the cancellation of the game was the losing of the game's original production floppies, after which the developers refused to remake the game from scratch.

The Percom Doubler added the ability to boot and use Double Density Floppies (they provided their own modified TRSDOS called DoubleDOS), and included the Data Separator.

These were followed in 1986 by double-sided 800 KB floppies.

This allowed users to connect additional external floppy drives by third party vendors, but IBM did not offer their own external floppies until 1986.

With additional software, it was possible to read and write to MS-DOS -formatted floppies as well.