Apple kills FireWire support in macOS 26, ending 25 years of legacy device compatibility. Original iPods, professional audio ...

In Japan, there have long been laws and regulations that specify using floppy disks for submitting application data in some ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as reported by NPR, is looking to ditch the ancient technology of floppy disks and ...

Today, even some external USB PC 3.5-inch floppy drives will work on modern Macs. You may have trouble reading disks in this case, depending on the disks' original formats.

Even if you’re just needing to move those disc-bound files to something more permanent, like a cloud service or a multi-gigabyte external drive, the modest $30 price of the Dell DW316 Slim ...

More significantly, two years before the first USB flash drive, the iMac didn't have a floppy disk drive – a bold move that was heavily criticized. That made the external floppy drive one of the ...

The SF transportation agency's board has agreed to a $212 million deal with Hitachi Rail to overhaul the service and remove the 5.25-inch floppy disks it's been using since 1998.

Apple didn't ship a 1.44MB external floppy until the later PowerBook series of laptops. Some of which had internal drives, and an optional external 1.44MB model called the HDI-20.. Erase Disk ...

A copy-protected disk image written to IMG will no longer function. The purpose of allowing IMG is mostly for compatibility with external tools or extraction of FAT filesystems. If you wish to ...

Now, Augen Geradeaus reports the German Navy is looking to follow suit and replace the floppy drives used on its four Brandenburg class F123 frigates with a modern emulated solution.

The inspiration for this project kicked in while [Abe] was working on a floppy drive conversion project called the Floppy8, which crammed an MCU into an external floppy drive along with a rough ...