If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you ...

Chances are, you do not. What you need is a giant, dedicated Save keyboard that looks like a floppy disk. Image by [Makestreme] via Hackaday.IO [Makestreme] recently started creating YouTube ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Floppy disks could read and write, which made them great for academia. However, by the time I started college courses, they weren’t part of the recommended supplies. A cheap 8 GB USB thumb drive ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...