Yes, this is a Blu-ray/DVD reader and writer disguised as a Disk II drive. But it's no mere 3D-printed enclosure. RetroConnector really, and carefully, gutted an old Disk II and, in place of the ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

Continue reading “Restored Amiga 500 Is Blue ... [Steve] from Big Mess ‘o Wires completed work on a floppy disk drive emulator for older Macs such as the Plus.

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

New storage systems, coupled with a need to store more than the 1.44 megabytes of data held by a standard floppy, have led to its demise. Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy ...

Create music inspired by floppy drives using Sam Archer's ... pins 17 and 18 to the blue and blue-striped ... Wire pin 18 from the disk drive into pin two of the Arduino and pin 20 from the ...

That tiny icon—a blue disk with a silver shutter—was once an essential piece of hardware: ... However, as CDs, USB drives, and cloud storage emerged, the floppy disk quickly became redundant.

When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't include any mass storage, a hard drive, or SSDs. Instead, it shipped with a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive designed by Sony.

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...

Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk (LS-120 and LS-240) which reached capacities of 120 and 240 MB, respectively, as well as the rare Sony HiFD released ...