When I was a kid growing up in rural Yorkshire, one of the regular attractions at local fairs was a huge steam-powered organ: a baroque monstrosity of pipes, horns, and whistles that would parp out ...

Floppy driveshttps://www.wired.co.uk/topic/floppy-disk, though nearly extinct now, once ruled portable storage. In addition to their capacity to store well over a ...

An orchestral cover of Simon & Garfunkel's 'The Sound of Silence', by a cluster of floppy disk drives, is not something you probably expected to hear... Just when you thought those floppy disks had no ...

A 3.5-inch floppy disk holds 1.44 megabytes. That is roughly 90 seconds of music compressed as an MP3 at a decent bitrate. It is also, as Ukrainian software engineer Oleg Kutkov demonstrated in a ...