Hosein Zanbori / Unsplash Old floppy disks are also useful for retro ... a dodgy USB hub or have a bad port on an older computer, the drive may not work due to lack of power.

[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer and case ... when inserted into the floppy drive. He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors have ...

helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8 ...

The company no longer provides floppy drives on standard notebook computers. Apple Computer stopped including floppy disk drives in Macintosh computers five years ago. Other PC makers, including ...

Nothing to do with "strings of text" or "string theory," a Stringy Floppy was a magnetic tape drive for the Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computer ... before the floppy disk made them obsolete.

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives ... the best way to get data off an old drive was to fire up an old computer. Now, with new devices specifically designed for harvesting ...

Without the Floppy Disks, the earlier computer systems could not be run. Since Floppy Disk was the first hard drive to store the data and run the computer programs, it was named with the letter A ...

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

The first full-stealth computer virus. In 1986 ... Aimed at the IBM PC, the Brain virus only slowed down the floppy disk drive and did no other damage. By replacing the boot sector in the floppy ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

This computer was ground-breaking but incredibly expensive ... and shipped with two “Twiggy” floppy disk drives. Officially known as “FileWare,” this disk and drive system proved unreliable and slow.