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The floppy disk itself is made of foam board, and everything is encased in a picture frame. If you want to make one for yourself, [Makestreme] has some great instructions over on IO.
No, a better bet is simply to spend a few bucks. I did a little shopping on Ebay and found plenty of 3.5-inch external floppy disk drives, most of them selling in the $10-15 range.
It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.
The first 5.25-inch floppy disk was introduced by Shugart Associates in 1976 to be compatible with IBM mainframe computers. When IBM introduced the AT personal computer, the 5.25-inch floppy made ...
Because the 5.25 inch floppy drive were already obsolete in 1998!! Just as reference, the Amiga and the Mac were the 1st computers to use 3 1/4 inch drives and that was in 1984!!
A report by 9to5Mac states that RR Auctions has stopped taking bids as the floppy disk sold for $84,115 (roughly Rs 60.14 lakh) The floppy disk had a copy of Macintosh System Tools Version 6.0.
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct 20 (Reuters) - It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.
His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a lot of hacking, Woz got the first floppy drive to run on what would become ...
The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before that, the 8-inch floppy was the icon of data storage.
The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations.
In 1995, Sony released "Music Screeners" on 3.5″ floppy disks for artists like Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Céline Dion, and Cyndi Lauper.