Hi,<BR><BR>I have a friend with a stack of old 5 1/4" floppies, and she has just decided that she wants the data that's stored on them. Perhaps foolishly, I agreed to see what I could do.<BR><BR>I ...

I just build a nice Athlon64 system for a client, and he wanted to add in his old 5.25" floppy drive. I figured it would be no problem, so I installed it. However, I could not get it to ...

This isn’t ISO certified but the closest thing to solar eclipse glasses I could find was this piece of a 5 1/4” floppy disk I had in my closet. I knew these would come in handy one day. Follow topics ...

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Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, […] ...

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In a nutshell: Ken Shirriff is an IC reverse engineering enthusiast who enjoys restoring vintage computers and devices. While repairing an 8-inch HP floppy drive, the computer historian discovered an ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government. The announcement (Japanese, machine translated) last ...