This project provides the CAD files for an STM32-based floppy-disk controller that can be attached to the back of an ordinary 3.5 inch floppy-disk drive and connected to a USB host via micro USB port.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For many of us the passing of the floppy ... and HD drives. We can see that it will be extremely useful to anyone working with retrocomputer software who is trying to retrieve old disks, and ...

(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 ...

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 ...

External USB/Thunderbolt drives ... The testbed boots from a NVMe drive, but the real-world (Windows) file transfers are performed to and from a 58GB RAM disk. HDDs (hard disk drives) have been ...

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 ...

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 ...