[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 ...

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 ...

Take the old CPU from your computer, remove any pins from its ... Although you may not be using your old floppy disks to store important data anymore, you can still get some use out of them ...

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 ...

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

(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 ...

We loved those disks and that blazingly fast 6MHz computer. Also: Dell turns 40: How a teenager transformed $1,000 worth of PC parts into a tech giant From then on, the floppy disk took off.

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 ...