LS-240 USB bus powered floppy disk drive with my android smartphone via a USB OTG cable. It is nice to listen to music from a floppy disk while i go shopping especially in a time and age when most ...

Way back in ancient times, i.e. the '70s and '80s, the floppy disk was a major player in the world of digital storage. And you might be surprised to learn just how prominent the format still is in ...

At least one type of floppy disk, the ancient 8-inch introduced by IBM in 1971, seems on the verge of extinction. “There aren’t any left, and we sell the ones we have for $5 [each] in boxes of ...

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.

Experts filmed schoolkids trying to identify devices used in schools READ MORE: Japan kills off the floppy disk with new legislation It was only a couple of decades ago that schools were filled ...

When you think about retro music formats, floppy disks may not immediately be top of mind. They're not as culturally iconic as cassette and CD players or as elegant as old-school vinyl. But for a ...

His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, ... The best external hard drives you can buy right now ZDNET.

Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone ...

Now technicians from a German music company have come up with an oddball analog echo effects unit that generates the delay effect using a 3.5-inch floppy disc. SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ...

The floppy disk, invented and made by IBM in 1967, was once the preferred format for storing files and transferring them between computers – but you'd be lucky to find one being used today.

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...