I'd like to be able to simultanously use both a 3.5" drive and a 5.25" drive in a Pentium Classic-era IBM Aptiva.The 3.5" drive has been in the computer for a while, while I just recently picked ...

I just build a nice Athlon64 system for a client, and he wanted to add in his old 5.25" floppy drive. I figured it would be no problem, so I installed it. However, I could not get it to work.Do ...

In this episode of [Adrian’s Digital Basement], we dive into the world of retro computing with a focus on diagnosing and repairing an old full-height 5.25-inch floppy drive from an IBM 5150 s… ...

In addition it incorporates the FatFS library for MS-DOS FAT file-level access, and finally the ArduDOS environment which allows browsing of files on a floppy. The pictures show a 3.5″ drive ...

In 1981, the IBM PC debuted with the 5.25-inch floppy disk drive. The disks looked like exact albeit smaller replicas of 8-inch disks, and they were just as open to the elements.

When tinkerer Rossum needed a floppy drive for his Atari 400 computer, he decided to modernize it. Gone is the giant, clanking Atari 810 and its slow 5.25-inch floppy disks. In its place is this ...

The floppy drive is part of a larger project in which Dr. Moddnstine converted an IBM Aptiva desktop case from 1995 into a modern, Core i7-based PC. Be sure to check out the full photo album , and ...

Over the course of the last 70 years, we’ve had no storage then floppy disks (8-inch, 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch), hard drives, recordable CDs, USB drives and now flash storage.

It's also worth noting that the SFMTA control system uses bulkier 5.25-inch floppy drives, not standard 3.5-inch floppies or larger 8-inch floppies. Speaking to Ars Technica in April, ...

Technology is ever changing. What was ubiquitous one day can be archaic the next. Cassette drives no longer run software. We don't transfer files on a floppy disk, either 5.25" or 3.5". And today, a ...