A dad turned floppy disks into a toddler TV remote

A dad turned floppy disks into a toddler TV remote, and somehow it works better than smart screens ...
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Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system?

Floppy disks, long dismissed as obsolete relics of the past, have unexpectedly returned to the Linux development spotlight. For the first time in nearly three years, a new patch has been submitted to ...
Hackaday

TV Remote Uses Floppy Disks

Famously, the save icon on most computer user interfaces references a fairly obsolete piece of technology: the venerable ...
WFAE

Floppy disks get a second life at Cambridge University Library

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...
PC Gamer

'We have won the war on floppy disks!' Japan finally declares independence from floppy media

Good news for Japan, bad news for my nostalgic heart. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on Google ...
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Dell Removing Floppy Drives On Desktops

Dell Computer said Wednesday it will stop putting the drives in its desktop computers next month and offer them only as an option. Newer storage devices can hold far more data, at a competitive price, ...
Computerworld

Japanese government says ‘sayonara’ to floppy disk

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...