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 ...

If you're like most people, you probably haven't thought about the humble floppy disk in decades. But they're not totally ...

It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And it's unlikely to change. Here's why.

Want my recommendation? Here’s the floppy drive I use, which only costs $19 as of this writing.Most USB-compatible 3.5-inch floppy drives are similar, but a few things stand out about this one: ...

Who buys floppy disks in an age when more sophisticated storage devices like CD-ROMS, DVDs and USB flash drives have been made increasingly obsolete by internet and cloud storage?

“If you plan to buy a new one, then there are several USB Floppy Disk Drives available even now in the market that are Plug and Play. and work just fine on a Windows 10 computer.

“I personally think that the floppy disk should die,” says Florian Cramer, ... These devices cost around $275 each, replace the floppy drive with a simple USB port, ...

His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a lot of hacking, Woz got the first floppy drive to run on what would become ...

The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s ...