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For questions about computer disk drives for removable magnetic storage media.

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Why were floppy disks invented after hard disks?

For those of us who grew up with personal computers in the 1970's or 1980's, the experience was a very gradual migration from floppy disks to hard disks as the primary persistent storage. So, based on …
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What old version of Windows provides out-of-the-box DVD movie playback?

I bought a Playstation 2 in 2000, which famously included a DVD drive capable of playing DVD movies. I wanted the same movie playback capability on my Windows 98 PC. As I recall, I mistakenly thought …
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