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 ...

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

Although mechanically sound, the drive had trouble reading disks, and Adrian quickly set out to fix the issue. Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he ...

Others see only USB-FDD (floppy drive) or USB-ZIP (ZIP drive ... Once in the BIOS, seek out the boot priority or hard-disk sequence settings, and make the USB key boot first.

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 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 ...

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

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

(1) An external storage or optical disc drive that plugs into the USB port. See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage module that plugs into the computer's USB port. Emerging just ...

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 ...