For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented, but there remains a corps of experimenters for whom the classic removable storage format still holds some fascination. The interface for… ...

Retro PC case flaunts floppy disk-style bay cover — Silverstone FLP01 will sell for around $ ... Silverstone's universal ...

Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

His 2-minute long floppy disk drive version of 'The Game of Thrones' theme has gotten over 1.8 million views on YouTube since he first published it in 2012.. The 26-year-old lives in Coconut Creek ...

There's something uniquely satisfying about the CLICK of putting a 3.5-inch floppy disk in the drive, and it's a shame you don't get to enjoy it anymore. That is, unless you are Dr. Moddnstine and ...

If you have some old floppy disks lying around, then you may want to check out this fun DIY USB drive which was made using an old 3.5 inch floppy. This fun USB drive was made by Charles Mangin ...

How to Emulate a Floppy Disk Drive. Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD.

The Apple 5.25″ floppy drives were 35 track, as were other early drives. Their were some 40 track drives for the apple, like the fourth dimension drive. The IBM pc had 40 track double sided drives.

Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip disk and Floptical . (2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk developed by IBM and available on certain IBM PCs.

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 ...

Over the course of the last 70 years, we’ve had no storage then floppy disks (8-inch, 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch), hard drives, recordable CDs, USB drives and now flash storage.

Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk (LS-120 and LS-240) which reached capacities of 120 and 240 MB, respectively, as well as the rare Sony HiFD released ...