Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk ... Shugart's team designed a 5.25-inch 'mini floppy' disk in 1976 that stored ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

In 2022, Japan's digital minister "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech like CDs and mini-discs ... especially in the so-called "lobit" subculture, which celebrates low-bitrate ...

While the whole build is impressive, the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular USB flash drive when inserted into the floppy drive.