Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway ...

The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch ...

[CHZ-Soft] has found an easy way, using a logic analyzer and a healthy dose of Python. Floppy drives have particularly low-level interfaces, offering up little more than a few signals to indicate ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

But why do we no longer see the drive letters “A:” and “B:” on our PCs? It’s because even halfway modern computers no longer have floppy disc drives. “A:” and “B:” are ...

Speaking of Star Wars and masturbation… have you bought one of MetalSucks’ patented ‘Metal Warz’ shirts yets??? Get yours here!!! *Kids: a floppy drive disc was… oh, just go ask your parents, I can’t ...

The simplicity and reliability in certain controlled environments make floppy disks surprisingly resilient. Even as storage capacities and transfer speeds of modern devices have soared, the humble ...

Very bendable in its plastic jacket, the first 5.25" floppy held 360KB. After it was upgraded to 1.2MB in 1984, 360KB diskettes were still used to distribute software, because 1.2MB drives ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

Cases, cooling, and power specialist Silverstone has uploaded the official product pages and manual for the upcoming FLP01 chassis. This beige desktop caught our eye last year as it seems perfect for ...