Every now and again I hear someone complain that netbooks typically don’t come with DVD drives. But I’ve never heard anyone complain that they can’t take floppy disks. While we haven’t quite moved to ...

Sony has finally decided to stop making 3.5-inch floppy disks, according to international news reports. The Japanese electronics giant has announced it will stop selling the 30-year-old storage format ...

Not long ago, the very last VHS tape was produced. It was the end of an era, for sure. Today, another era is ending, and it's one that we can't believe took this long to finally die. The floppy disc ...

This is so cool; an unexpected use for an antiquated digital storage medium. [DeepSOIC] built a cutter that shaves off plastics but cannot cut through metal. It’s made out of the media part of a 3.5” ...

Sony used to sell digital cameras that recorded on actual floppy disks. We’ve come a long way, but [Mathieu] put a floppy in a digital camera recently for an entirely different reason. First, though, ...

Charles Mangin from Option8 managed to cram a USB stick into an old floppy in such a way that’s just fresh enough to be a DIY project I wouldn’t mind attempting myself. The hack actually involved two ...

A few years ago, small indie labels starting making their new releases available on cassette tape. In the age of digital downloads and streaming services, the chance to buy a physical, playable object ...

Having spent a large part of my youth listening to the crunchy grinding noises of 3.5″ floppy drives, they’re almost a lullaby to me now. But the crazy kids these days aren’t satisfied just listening ...

For fans of vintage Macintosh computers and truly rare finds, a very unusual item has just surfaced in the wild: a 128k Macintosh prototype that used a 5.25” “Twiggy” floppy disk mechanism, the same ...

Many manufacturers discontinued production at the end of the 2000s, leaving floppy disk (FD) as a recording medium that has only left a remnant on software overwrite save buttons, etc. to protect the ...