[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer and case ... when inserted into the floppy drive. He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors have ...

There’s also an internal floppy drive that’s had its eject mechanism cleverly motorized, along with a modified USB battery bank that should keep the whole show running for about an hour.

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions.

IBM offered an extra-high density 2.88MB drive on selected PCs that was backward compatible, but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS ...

A disk file that simulates a floppy disk. It is used to duplicate floppies, to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require ...

At 8-inches in diameter, it was more akin to jamming a laserdisc or record into your computer ... floppy drives. Despite my love of the old and crusty storage media of yesteryear, the floppy disk ...

helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8 ...

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used as a portable means of storage and for backups. A solid-state drive (SSD) uses technology similar to that ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...