Silent, an electronics hobbyist in Poland, hacked a couple floppy drives to play The Imperial March, as seen in the first video after the jump. Although this isn’t the first time this has been done ...

This doesn’t really have anything to do with metal, but it’s pretty neat and the whole goddamn world has Star Wars fever right now on account of Rogue One, so we thought we’d share it. A dude named ...

I realize the majority of MetalSucks readers are too young to remember floppy disc drives — or at least too young for them to have been an important part of computer usage — but there was a time when ...

As a fan of music, this is pretty cool. Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak has created a “PC hardware orchestra” that plays tunes through floppy disks and other computer hardware parts. The Floppotron 3 ...

Holding on to a cache of old floppies because nostalgia? Us too, and this might be the coolest possible use for ’em. While it’s fun to imagine that he wrote a compression algorithm to fit a lossless ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Dell Computer Co. said it will discontinue floppy disk drives as standard equipment in its higher end Dimension 8250 desktop computers, effective next month. "When ...

Like a lot of people who’ve worked in tech for a long time, I’ve accumulated a lot of products over the years. I’m not very good at throwing things away - because you never know when you’ll need them!

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 ...