No, a better bet is simply to spend a few bucks. I did a little shopping on Ebay and found plenty of 3.5-inch external floppy disk drives, most of them selling in the $10-15 range.

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

The first 5.25-inch floppy disk was introduced by Shugart Associates in 1976 to be compatible with IBM mainframe computers. When IBM introduced the AT personal computer, the 5.25-inch floppy made ...

There's some confusion here. The article and its photo refer to 5.25 inch floppies. Even on the linked TV report, the lady reporter also refers to the floppy as 5 and a quarter inch floppy disk.

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct 20 (Reuters) - It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

A report by 9to5Mac states that RR Auctions has stopped taking bids as the floppy disk sold for $84,115 (roughly Rs 60.14 lakh) The floppy disk had a copy of Macintosh System Tools Version 6.0.

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations.

His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a lot of hacking, Woz got the first floppy drive to run on what would become ...

The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before that, the 8-inch floppy was the icon of data storage.

In 1995, Sony released "Music Screeners" on 3.5″ floppy disks for artists like Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Céline Dion, and Cyndi Lauper.

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.