Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern ...

For many of us the passing of the floppy ... and HD drives. We can see that it will be extremely useful to anyone working with retrocomputer software who is trying to retrieve old disks, and ...

While the whole build is impressive, the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular USB flash drive when inserted into the floppy drive.

But although the once-indispensable disks have been getting less and less use, the floppy drive seems to be here to stay on PCs for now. The reasons to use the 3 1/2-inch disks -- developed by ...

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 ...

Reader Kristie wrote in with this puzzler: “I just found a shoebox full of 3.5-inch disks. I think they were from my old digital camera, but I have no way of finding out because I no longer have ...

floppy disks. Sony introduced the now-ubiquitous 3.5-in. floppy disk and drive in 1981. But the death knell is tolling for the floppy. Major computer manufacturers such as Dell and HP are dropping ...

In a time not so long ago, 3.5-inch floppy drives were something that every desktop computer had. But with our ever-increasing data needs, the paltry 1.44MB of space just doesn’t cut it anymore.

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past ...