How to Emulate a Floppy Disk Drive. Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD.

Developed during the 1960s, a Floppy Disk is certainly a thing of the past. But some users may still need it for some reason. Floppy drives were extensively used during the 1980s, 1990s, and early ...

For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented, but there remains a corps of experimenters for whom the classic removable storage format still holds some fascination. The interface for… ...

Retro PC case flaunts floppy disk-style bay cover — Silverstone FLP01 will sell for around $ ... Silverstone's universal ...

Americans bought $265 million worth of floppy disks last year, but in 2001 that market is expected to shrink to $250 million. Next year, the floppy market is expected to shrink by at least as much ...

His 2-minute long floppy disk drive version of 'The Game of Thrones' theme has gotten over 1.8 million views on YouTube since he first published it in 2012.. The 26-year-old lives in Coconut Creek ...

I still fire up my Atari 800 with a 5.25″ floppy disc drive to play those nostalgic games of the 80’s. System still functioned well the last time I used it a couple years ago.

There's something uniquely satisfying about the CLICK of putting a 3.5-inch floppy disk in the drive, and it's a shame you don't get to enjoy it anymore. That is, unless you are Dr. Moddnstine 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.

Data storage mechanisms have come a long way since IBM proudly introduced the first "memory disk" in 1971. By the end of the '70s, a number of manufacturers were churning out 5.25-in. floppy disks.

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 ...

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 ...