Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions.

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

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

A recent Linux kernel is rarely if ever compiled for something as small as a floppy disk, so getting one to ... booting from floppy on an ancient computer. Never complain that your Raspberry ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch floppy disk labeled ... awareness of computer viruses was minimal ...

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.

If you can gain access to this seeming "computer store," you’ll find a ... once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead, the Red-Headed Stepchild awaits, the ...

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 ...

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 ...