Floppy Disks

File Allocation Table - Overview - Uses
... of CDs and DVDs) and as such are commonly found on floppy disks, super-floppies, memory and flash memory cards or USB flash drives and are supported by ... While FAT12 is omnipresent on floppy disks, FAT16 and FAT32 are typically found on the larger media ... FAT was also commonly used on hard disks throughout the DOS and Windows 9x eras, but its use on hard drives has declined since the introduction of Windows XP, which primarily uses the ...

List Of File Formats - Archive and Compressed - Physical Recordable Media Archiving
... IMG – For archiving MS-DOS formatted floppy disks ... ADF – Amiga Disk Format, for archiving Amiga floppy disks ADZ – The GZip-compressed version of ADF ... DMS – Disk Masher System, a disk-archiving system native to the Amiga ...

Elk Cloner - Development
... games and software, he would often alter the floppy disks to shut down or display taunting on-screen messages ... Due to this reputation for pranks, many of his friends simply stopped accepting floppy disks from him ... Skrenta thought of methods to alter floppy disks without physically touching them ...