Once upon a time, you could buy floppy drive cleaning disks at just about any stationary or computer store. These days, they’re harder to find. If you want to build one yourself, though, you might do ...
There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...
Not too long ago, part of using a computer was often finding the correct disk for the application you wanted to run and ...
Iron oxide on the surface of the plastic may corrode material away, or it may lose its magnetism, preventing it from begin ...
Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite ...
On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here?
Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago ...