Apple and its cofounder Steve Jobs certainly helped design and popularize storage devices throughout computing history. For example, the Mac mainstreamed Sony’s 3.5-inch floppy drive in the ...

From the floppy disk to the headphone jack, Apple has a history of removing ubiquitous technology from its gadgets before people think they’re ready to give them up.

How to Emulate a Floppy Disk Drive. Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless ...

There’s a joke that circulates online every few years. It’s a picture of a floppy disk, accompanied by the claim that a kid thought it was a real-life version of the “save” icon. Every ...

Last century (1998), Apple created a minor furor when it eliminated the then-standard floppy-disk drive from its new iMac computer. You do remember floppy disks, don’t you?

Enter [Acemi Elektronikci], with an Arduino Nano based floppy emulator, that plugs into the floppy port of a PC old enough to have one, and allows the easy use of virtual floppy disks.

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk ...

DiskFight swaps hammers and moles for four 3.5-inch disk drives that has players trying to quickly eject and reinsert floppy disks while also dealing with disks that pop out all on their own. It ...

The floppy drive is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it’ll hang around but never hold the same relevance in everyday life.

Apple and its cofounder Steve Jobs certainly helped design and popularize storage devices throughout computing history. For example, the Mac mainstreamed Sony’s 3.5-inch floppy drive in the ...