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.

The Evolution of Video Game Media From jumper cards to hard disks, these are the cards, cartridges, and drives that have shaped the world of gaming.

If you don’t need the “disks” to fit into an existing slot, you could print them larger and embed Beyond the cartridges, the PC itself is assembled on a 3D printed frame inside the case.

What does optical disc actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

It’s the world’s largest PC hardware orchestra (probably): it’s Floppotron 3.0, built from 512 floppy disk drives, four flatbed scanners, and 16 hard disk drives by Polish engineer Paweł ...

New optical disc has room for 1,000 copies of Baldur's Gate 3 The DVD and Blu-ray era isn't over yet, as scientists demonstrate the potential for a laser-based disc with 125TB of storage space.

Retro fans might also appreciate that behind the upper faux 5.25-inch floppy door you can fit an optical disk drive, or any other 5.25-inch device.

The time has come to bid farewell to one of the PC's more stalwart friends - the floppy disk. Computing superstore PC World said it will no longer sell the storage devices, affectionately known as ...

We take a look at the evolution of the video game storage and distribution; from the Floppy Disc to Digital Streaming and everything between.

Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is the optical drive going the way of the floppy disk?" ...

The 3.5in floppy disk, once an icon of the computer age, is to be cleared from the shelves of PC World as demand for disks plummets.