The player would have been a major undertaking when the floppy was king, but in 2020 it’s simply a USB floppy drive, a Raspberry Pi, and a battery pack. He’s given us the full instructions ...

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.

On a personal level - I have access to lots of computers, but none have a floppy disk drive or an optical drive. However, I keep a USB DVD-RW drive for the odd occasion that I need to dig out an ...

As computer networking and new storage formats like USB flash drives and memory cards emerged, the floppy disk's reign waned ...

Lee Wimmer invited us to tour his second-generation family-owned machine shop in Perkasie, PA. This video explores the production processes behind precision-machined parts for both Wimmer Custom Cycle ...

and with much greater capacity than a typical floppy. Smaller, more compact, and less fragile than CD/DVD: A USB key drives storage medium will never scratch, and it is much more rigid than CD/DVD ...

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 ...

Apple did away with the button on the face without losing any functionality, so it can afford to add one back. On Monday, ...

Then check your device for any removable storage. For computers, that means checking the DVD drive, card reader, floppy drives, and USB ports for old or forgotten media. In addition to internal ...

Storage capacities evolved to 250MB and 750MB in 1998 and 2002 respectively, but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like ...

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...

SINGAPORE - Mr Alvin Yap’s interest in technology goes back to the 1980s, when floppy disks ruled and personal computers were shared. “My brother and I were once content to battle for the only ...