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 ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us ... but in 2020 it’s simply a USB floppy drive, a Raspberry Pi, and a battery pack. He’s given us the full instructions, and ...

Floppy Drive A floppy drive stores and retrieves information on floppy disks. Today, most floppy drives are for ... and many UNIX systems for attaching peripheral devices to computers. USB Universal ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

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.

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used ... were far easier to write to. By 2005, USB portable hard drives were cheap and offered larger ...

An earlier, low-cost, portable disk drive from Iomega. Introduced under the Clik! brand in 1999, it used floppy-like ... connected to the computer via USB or PC Card, the latter containing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Also, quirks of the Macintosh floppy drive design precluded the ... allowing images to be read from "unfinalized" disks just as you would from a normal USB-connected digicam.

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.