YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. You can send them to us and we will download the files.Īnalytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. Such disks may be decrypted and converted to virtual disks in our laboratory. For example, disks with different spinning speed, copy protected disks, 5.25 inch disks, or disks with specific formats. Some of these disks are impossible to be downloaded with ordinary computer and it requires a special hardware to be transferred to virtual disk images. These computers are widely used in Japan in various fields – from gaming consoles, music synthesizers and industrial machines. They use special formats for their floppy disks with different rotation speeds. Meanwhile in Japan, having the PC developed by NEC – PC-9800 briefly called PC-98. For that reason, these floppy disks are difficult to clone or copy. Or they use non-standard computers with their own software. Similarly, companies producing machines and industrial equipment, protect their software from copying. If we talk about games, in the ’80s game consoles like Atari and Amiga used floppy disks for their games.

Why some floppies are difficult to be read or copy?

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