There’s also an internal floppy drive that’s had its eject mechanism cleverly motorized, along with a modified USB battery bank that should keep the whole show running for about an hour.

IBM offered an extra-high density 2.88MB drive on selected PCs that was backward compatible, but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS ...

A disk file that simulates a floppy disk. It is used to duplicate floppies, to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require ...

The gist of the story is that the floppy disk’s surface could still be scanned with help from the aptly named Applesauce Floppy Drive Controller, which got the following visualization of the ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...

Dell Computer said Wednesday it will stop putting the drives in its desktop computers next month and offer them only as an option. Newer storage devices can hold far more data, at a competitive ...