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.

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

which would make reading these disks as easy as writing a few lines of code. But wait, surely this is a solved problem? Why not just pick up a cheap USB floppy drive from the A to Z online ...

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the ... but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage medium ...

A cheap 8 GB USB thumb drive gave you far more storage, after all. So, now they remain something of a curio for those ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.

The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli ...

and USB thumb drives so cheap they are trade show giveaways. 2009 was a difficult year for floppy disc manufacturing, but the business is actually rebounding a bit in 2010, said Will Qualls ...

programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used as a portable means of storage and for backups. A solid-state drive (SSD) uses technology similar to that of USB drives ...