Friday Video: Now that we’ve replaced floppies with Flash memory, how will we ever do this?

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

On Friday, you get entertainment as well as technology in the EDA360 Insider. For your viewing pleasure, here is an old PC with two 5.25-inch and two 3.25-inch floppy drives playing J.S. Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” on their ancient stepper motors.

Sigh. Flash memory has no response to this sort of ability. Oh, what have we lost?

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About sleibson2

EDA360 Evangelist and Marketing Director at Cadence Design Systems (blog at https://eda360insider.wordpress.com/)
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