The performance is brought to you by one Paweł Zadrożniak, who has invented a new instrument of sorts, the Floppotron. Zadrożniak has been experimenting with floppy disk music for years, first ...

In 1977, the Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive, was a hit in households looking to have a computer to balance ...

The floppy disk, invented in the 1970s, was once a ubiquitous part of computing. Other forms of memory like flash drives and internet cloud storage have since taken over.

Aside from karaoke machines, NakaMats also claims to have invented floppy disks, a weird golf putter, compact disc players, digital watches, springy-shoes, hydrogen-powered engines, a crazy arm ...

As computers got smaller, so did the disks. The 5.25-inch version came along in 1976—its size allegedly inspired by a cocktail napkin its developers came across while talking shop in a Boston bar.

"These are people who use floppy disks as a way to get information in and out of a machine. Imagine it's 1990, and you're building a big industrial machine of one kind or another.

The floppy disk, invented and made by IBM in 1967, was once the preferred format for storing files and transferring them between computers. TWO-THIRDS OF UNDER 18S DON'T KNOW WHAT A FLOPPY DISK IS ...

The floppy disk, invented in the 1970s, was once a ubiquitous part of computing. Other forms of memory like flash drives and internet cloud storage have since taken over.

The mylar-coated magnetic disks invented by IBM in 1967 have largely been consigned to museums in the developed world. They fit a mere megabyte of data — enough for a few seconds of video.

Aside from karaoke machines, NakaMats also claims to have invented floppy disks, a weird golf putter, compact disc players, digital watches, springy-shoes, hydrogen-powered engines, ...

The technology world may seem to be locked in an endless cycle of renewal - but not when it comes to the floppy disk. More than 50 years after the technology was invented it has emerged that the ...