In some corner of my heart I miss handling floppy disks. I recently was given a Sony Vaio 3.5″ USB floppy drive which I hooked up to my Raspi running OSMC.

I’ve got some older tds3014 scopes with floppy drives, and would LOVE to be able to cheaply convert over to SD, flash, or USB drive, anything better than floppy. Report comment.

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.

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: ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...