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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...

[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer and case made ... the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular USB ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over ... Now here comes the tricky part: unless you happen to have a 1990s vintage computer laying around, getting these drives ...

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 ...

MainFrames launches today. Play as a floppy disk and traverse a computer screen in this creative indie 2D platformer.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to ...