We love wrapping new technology in our retro gadgets here at Lifehacker, and if you've got a pile of old floppies lying around, you can use them as USB storage with this clever hack. DIYer Charles ...

Check out this new 2-in-1 USB key from HP, the USB Floppy Drive Key. The USB Floppy Drive Key is a useful USB gadget as it can be read as a standard USB drive or as a floppy drive. This means you can ...

More loyal readers (read: those willing to sit through a video featuring me) might remember a spot we did on turning an old floppy disk into a USB drive. The results were disastrous, involving ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

If you’re in the mood for a bit of retro gaming this weekend, then dust off those ancient floppy disks and track yourself down a USB floppy drive this weekend, because Floppy drives work on Android ...

Back in the day, the floppy drive was all the rage. Being able to transport your data from one PC to another, all thanks to this small, square thing that could usually fit right into your pocket. Of ...

Ok, so I searched around a bit, and found lots of posts in other forums for people wondering if they can install 3rd party drivers from something other than diskette. From personal experience, I know ...

That the USB thumb drive is the natural descendent of the floppy disk is certain. They both suffer from the same advantages and problems: portable and convenient, yet cheap, plastic and all too ...

It's not often that a product makes us go "but why?" then "oh I see" and then "but why?" in such rapid succession, but the HP USB Floppy Drive Key has managed it. At first glance a standard USB memory ...