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Buying a 3.5-inch floppy drive today Windows 11 computers don’t come with floppy drives, so if you want to use floppy disks on a modern PC, you’ll need to buy a floppy drive.

Using a disk drive today is trivial. But back “in the day,” it was fairly complex both because the drives were simple and the CPUs were not powerful by today’s standards. [Thomas] has been ...

To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.

Who buys floppy disks in an age when more sophisticated storage devices like CD-ROMS, DVDs and USB flash drives have been made increasingly obsolete by internet and cloud storage?

Why the floppy disk just won’t die A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppies.

Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

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. I can see it now: Phoenix Floppies.

The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before that, the 8-inch floppy was the icon of data storage.

Germany is no longer defended in the Hindu Kush, but on drive A: Why the German Navy urgently needs a disk replacement.

But despite the finite number of disks decreasing every year, there are those who still hold on to floppies, whether for nostalgia-fuelled pleasure or necessity.

A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppy disks. But the supply is finally running out.