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This creative concept reinvents the 1.44MB floppy disk as a modern storage device – a holder for today’s SD cards packing terabytes of storage

The iconic floppy disk is reborn as a storage case for today's terabyte-packing SD cards From 1.44MB past to terabyte present, the new design bridges eras creatively Fun artwork references glitch ...
Hackaday

Preserving Floppy Disks

Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy ...
WVXU

Floppy disks get a second life at Cambridge University Library

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...
Ars Technica

Why the floppy disk just won’t die

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...
The Verge

Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene

Floppy disks are facing extinction, but musicians are still pumping out DIY music projects. Floppy disks are facing extinction, but musicians are still pumping out DIY music projects. The first ...