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We still have a copy of 1-2-3 to read them… right? System Profiler information We have bags of them, many containing family financial documents from the 1980s. Now its time to backup all our floppy disks. Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
IMATION SUPERDISK POWER SOURCE WINDOWS 10
For those of you who remember regular floppy drives (CHUG CHUG CLICK CLICK CHUG CHUG READ ERROR) these are two huge pluses!Īnyway, after a trip from Singapore back to Sydney recently in a poorly packed box (thank you Allied Pickfords) I tried it on my new Mac Pro and she still works! Hi, I have just bought an Imation SuperDisk Drive LS120 (SD-USB-M), originally a Mac drive, on eBay since I have an old LS120 disk I need to access, but when I plug it on - my Surface Book 2 with Windows 10 version 1803 build 17134.165 it wont recognize it. It requires a power supply unlike other USB powered floppy drives, but I've read anecdotal evidence that it reads disks twice as fast as a regular drive, and is almost completely silent.
IMATION SUPERDISK POWER SOURCE ZIP
I never owned a single SuperDisk given Zip disks were well entrenched in the family (I had around 70 of the things) but to this day I've used the drive with my Macs to read regular floppy disks. I think she expected me to use disks, but I took a cross over ethernet cable, configured some static IPs and had it all done in 15 minutes! To thank me for helping her, she gave me her green iMac and her Imation SuperDisk drive which she no longer used. When I was in high school in 2004 I was tasked with moving my English teacher's data from her green iMac G3 to her shiny new iMac G4. That drive was horrible as the power supply was very sensitive and usually would not work. The Superdisk drive that I had was the 2nd version, which was all white, as opposed to the blue and white one sold with the first iMac. As a bonus, their drives could also read regular 3.5 inch floppy disks, and I've confirmed they even work under Snow Leopard without extra drivers! At the time the Imation Superdisk drive was popular and was often sold with Macs for using floppies as well as superdisks. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage medium among the general public.Not to be confused with Apple's SuperDrives, SuperDisks were a 120MB competitor to Iomega's Zip disks. Later on it was available in 250 MB and 750 MB capacities, but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk (LS-120 and LS-240) which reached capacities of 120 and 240 MB, respectively, as well as the rare Sony HiFD released in the late 90s that offered up to 200 MB of storage capacity.Īnother popular "superdisk" alternative was the Iomega Zip drive which launched with capacities of 100 MB. That was shortly after increased to 720KB and eventually reaching 1.44 MB which was the most commonly known standard by the late 80s. The shrink to 3.5-inch disks came in 1982 after a consortium of 21 companies agreed to specifications, which included a formatted disk capacity of 280KB. In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650).Īnswering demand for a smaller format diskette that was more manageable and affordable for desktop word processing machines of the day, Shugart's team designed a 5.25-inch 'mini floppy' disk in 1976 that stored 87.5KB and within two years, more than 10 manufacturers were making 5.25-inch floppy drives. Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's products before being sold separately in 1972 by companies including Memorex.
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