Category Archives: Floppies

Kids these days…

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Michal Necasek

By sheer accident I stumbled on this document. In summary, it’s about a bunch of school kids working on a computer history preservation project and trying to archive a big box of floppies from George Alistair Sanger, a video game … Continue reading →

Posted in DOS, Floppies | 22 Comments

The XDF Diskette Format

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Michal Necasek

In 1994, IBM started shipping software with support for XDF, or eXtended Density Format, first in OS/2 Warp and a few months later in PC DOS 7.0. Some of IBM’s software packages were also distributed on XDF diskettes. XDF allowed … Continue reading →

Posted in Floppies, IBM | 24 Comments

Detecting Floppy Drives and Media

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Michal Necasek

Detecting floppy drive types and installed media is a far trickier topic than it should have been. In the ideal world, software could determine how many floppy drives are attached, what their capabilities are, and what media is installed in … Continue reading →

Posted in Floppies, IBM, PC hardware | 18 Comments