Yes, this is a Blu-ray/DVD reader and writer disguised as a Disk II drive. But it's no mere 3D-printed enclosure. RetroConnector really, and carefully, gutted an old Disk II and, in place of the ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

They might just have owned a PC that had a 5.25 inch disk drive, but the image conjured by the phrase “floppy disk” will be the hard blue plastic of the once ubiquitous 3.5 inch disk.

Create music inspired by floppy drives using Sam Archer's ... pins 17 and 18 to the blue and blue-striped ... Wire pin 18 from the disk drive into pin two of the Arduino and pin 20 from the ...

Continue reading “Restored Amiga 500 Is Blue ... [Steve] from Big Mess ‘o Wires completed work on a floppy disk drive emulator for older Macs such as the Plus.

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 ...

When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't include any mass storage, a hard drive, or SSDs. Instead, it shipped with a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive designed by Sony.