[Maurizio] loves using his Amiga 500. His classic piece of hardware has been serving him well for years, except for the floppy drive, which recently gave out on him. No problem for [Maurizio], he j… ...

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.

It hasn't sold any other computers with floppy drives since May 1999. But the Windows side of the industry, after a few unsuccessful experiments, isn't poised to follow suit.

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.

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 ...

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: ...

Computer geeks who hoard their gear probably have a slew of 3.5-inch floppy drives sitting around and if so, you can make yourself this floppy drive with 118GB of storage. Originally, the 3.5-inch ...

Not so long ago, 3.5-inch floppy drives were something that every desktop computer had. U.K.-based Solid State Disk has a way to make them useful again.

When tinkerer Rossum needed a floppy drive for his Atari 400 computer, he decided to modernize it. Gone is the giant, clanking Atari 810 and its slow 5.25-inch floppy disks. In its place is this ...

Investigating alternatives to the floppy drive By the end of the '70s, a number of manufacturers were churning out 5.25-in. floppy disks. Sony introduced the now-ubiquitous 3.5-in. floppy disk an ...

Archer used an Arduino Uno microprocessor to play music on a 3.5-inch floppy drive. The drive needs a 34-pin IDC connector and have the A/B select jumper set to drive B.

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 ...