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.

So it is with removable media, while we still have the occasional USB flash disk or SD ... mind modifying the drive, there’s always this classic approach to marrying a floppy with an SD card.

Others see only USB-FDD (floppy drive) or USB-ZIP (ZIP drive ... Once in the BIOS, seek out the boot priority or hard-disk sequence settings, and make the USB key boot first.

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured ... CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage ...

A disk file that simulates a floppy disk. It is used to duplicate floppies, to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require ...

(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 ...

There are some concerns about the safety aspect, as floppy disks are said to be more resilient compared to a modern-age system reliant on USB-based storage interfaces.

Dell Computer said Wednesday it will stop putting the drives in its desktop computers next month and offer them only as an option. Newer storage devices can hold far more data, at a competitive ...