Anyone who has been around computers for very long will remember the good ol' A drive. Back in the day, the 3.5-inch floppy drive sat at the top of the drive hierarchy and if you venture into BIOS ...

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Not so long ago, 3.5-inch floppy drives were something that every desktop computer had. U.K.-based Solid State Disk has a way to make them useful again.

The floppy drive might be dead, but that didn't stop onw clever hardware hacker from modifying a floppy drive to read multi-gigabyte SD Cards.

No, a better bet is simply to spend a few bucks. I did a little shopping on Ebay and found plenty of 3.5-inch external floppy disk drives, most of them selling in the $10-15 range.

i have a p5n-e sli motherboard whose bios only has floppy selections for "legacy floppy drive a", and those selections are only for 720k and 1.44m 3.5". i need to hook up a 1.2m 5.25" drive. is ...

That said, floppy disks have some advantages over other methods of information transfer, like a Wi-Fi link or a flash drive, Mr Persky said.

Plug in the disk drive, insert a disk, and modern Android phone should be able to read data from the disk. You can then copy data to and from the drive or run applications.

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.

Ever been nostalgic for the majesty of 1.44MB floppy disks, but wished they came with 91,000x the storage capacity? One capable modder has heard your cry. Behold: The 128GB floppy disk.

One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At the time, many believed Apple was insane for leaving a floppy disk drive off the iMac, but did Steve Jobs care? Nope.

Sony has signalled what could be the final end of the venerable floppy disk. The electronics giant has said it will stop selling the 30-year-old storage media in Japan from March 2011. Earlier this ...