A quick primer on floppy disks
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- 📝 1,050 words
- 🕙 5 minutes
- 📦 Technology
- 🏷️ floppy disks
I've always been fascinated by floppy disks from the crazy stories of Steve Wozniak designing the Disk II controller using a handful of logic chips and carefully-timed software to the amazing tricks to create - and break - copy protection recently popularised by 4am.
I'm going to be writing a few articles about data preservation and copy protection but first we need a short primer.