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.

A portrait of Indianapolis humor icon David Letterman made of floppy disks will be displayed in downtown InterContinental ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

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PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks.

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

FLOPPY DISK The floppy disk ... the world's first low-cost personal cassette player, went on sale in Japan in July 1979, and was sold for around ¥33,000 ($150). After booming in the 1970s ...

Inside the drive is the floppy disk, which is essentially magnetic recording tape pressed into the shape of a small record and then enclosed in a square cardboard envelope, 5 1/4 inches on each side.

Hitachi GST, or HGST, in 2012 was acquired by Western Digital. It was formed in 2003 by the sale of IBM's disk drive business to Hitachi. * Toshiba, which in 2009 acquired Fujitsu's hard drive ...

San Francisco reportedly has a new home sale record thanks to Laurene Powell ... says it still uses floppy disks to run the trains, as it has since 1998. On Monday, San Francisco city ...