He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors have the same spacing as SD cards. Add in a hacked USB card reader, some careful cutting and assembly, and [gilmour509] has a very ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...

USB Write access or USB Write protection ... Hardware writes protection is mostly available in the card reader or floppy disks. In hardware write protection there will be a mechanical switch ...

Just over a year ago, the team programmed a Raspberry Pi Pico to read floppy disks. Now, they've taken ... It also has optional USB-C support. At the moment, the PCB features a 34-pin IDC pinout ...

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

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

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 ...

Meanwhile, with nobody manufacturing the disks any more, computer systems that read them will only become more difficult to maintain. The floppy is also running on "borrowed time", said Ong.

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 ...

The original Mac let you erase disks right on the Desktop, with the feature returning thanks to macOS Sequoia. Here's how to use it. When the original Mac was released in 1984, its desktop allowed ...