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Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s

If you've used a Windows PC, you might have noticed that the main system drive is labeled "C:" by default and caught yourself wondering what happened to "A:" or "B:". After all, the alphabet doesn't ...
Post-Bulletin

Floppy disks fade into computing history

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Floppy disks -- who needs 'em? They're not practical for storing digital photos, MP3 compressed music files or any of the other accoutrements of the digital lifestyle. They don't ...
9to5Mac

Businesses in Japan must keep their floppy disk drives for one more year

Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government. The announcement (Japanese, machine translated) last ...
Ars Technica

Ridiculous Floppy Drive Question

Having picked out a case, mainboard, CPU, RAM, and all other necessary components for my new rig, I've got one last choice to make: a black floppy drive. I use floppy disks quite often to interface ...