You might have had a boombox back in the 1990s, but probably not like the Yamaha MDP-10. As [Nicole] explains, the odd little device played MIDI files from a floppy disk.Technically, it wasn’t ...

Create music inspired by floppy drives using Sam Archer ... Strip your cat 5 cable back and attach pins 12 and 13 to the ... Wire pin 18 from the disk drive into pin two of the Arduino and pin 20 ...

New storage systems, coupled with a need to store more than the 1.44 megabytes of data held by a standard floppy, have led to its demise. Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy ...

Three decades after Apple's Macintosh was born, a prototype machine with a 5.25-inch "Twiggy" floppy-disk drive gets fired up in front of members of the original Mac development team.

Now, London artist Nick Gentry has turned forgotten floppy disk drives into art by using them as a canvas for mixed media paintings. "The whole world was totally reliant on these physical media ...