He’s given us the full instructions, and no doubt a more permanent version could be built with a 3D-printed case. We’re fascinated by the recent trend of storing audio on floppy disks ...

While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and lightweight enough to run off a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk, as ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

Like the magnetic cassette and the floppy disk before them ... In doing so, they reportedly devised a 3D nanoscale optical disk memory system capable of reaching petabit (Pb) capacity.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

In the comic, a child sees a floppy disk and says: 'Wow, cool! You made a 3D model of the save icon!'. According to Reuters, Japan's Digital Minister Taro Kono has been pushing to eliminate use of ...

(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 ...