These stores typically have used 3.5-inch floppy disks for sale, and you can expect to pay around $0.25 per disk. No more than $0.50 each, else you’re being ripped off. Fredy Jacob / Unsplash ...

Other details about spinning disks include the fact that inner tracks are shorter than outer track and ... RAMs, a floppy drive controller, and, of course, MIDI chips. Apparently, opening ...

Developed during the 1960s, a Floppy Disk is certainly a thing of the past. But some users may still need it for some reason. Floppy drives were extensively used during the 1980s, 1990s, and early ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...

His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a lot of hacking, Woz got the first floppy drive to run on what would become ...

The same can’t be said of the floppy disk tooling and equipment, which Tom estimates would cost around 25 million dollars to spin up from the dead. ... When I got a floppy drive in 1984, ...

Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk (LS-120 and LS-240) which reached capacities of 120 and 240 MB, respectively, as well as the rare Sony HiFD released ...

The Afghanistan mission is now history. A new tender suggests that the country now has to be defended on drive A:. Because without floppy disks, the F123 class frigates are not going anywhere.

Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

RETRO-TASTIC It's been close to fifteen years since the last new floppy disk was manufactured by Sony. That's a long time by any standard, and it's especially lengthy in the ever-advancing tech world.

There are no computers with built-in floppy drives left, so we had to source an external one,” Niazashvili says. “Then we take the disks to the aircraft to update the flight management system ...