Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful ... who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that ...

The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch ...

In either case, it would have been a single-sided, 8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data. Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then when our other portable storage ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

Although floppy disk music "peaked" in the 2010s ... and was awarded the "journalist-at-large" fellowship by the Local Trust charity in 2021.

It’s an impressive hack that shows that preservation-grade backups of floppy disks can be achieved without spending big money or using specialist hardware. We’ve seen other projects in this ...

Aerospace engineer and DIY hobbyist Arpan Mondal came up with a large, retro-style floppy disk picture frame that doubles as an Arduino-powered save button for your computer. Not only does it ...

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...