The floppy disk itself is made of foam board, and everything is encased in a picture frame. If you want to make one for yourself, [Makestreme] has some great instructions over on IO.

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 ...

You can see the reader making contact with the SD card, which happens to fit beautifully inside the shell of an empty floppy. The result of this insanity is a floppy drive that can read a 128GB disk.

Some industries still use floppy disks. This is one of the only places to buy them An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still ...

Coonrod inserts a 3.5-inch floppy disk—which can hold 1.44 MB of data—that reads "Chuck E. Cheese Evergreen Show 2023" on a printed label. As the computer comes to life, ...

If you have a spare floppy disk lying around, pop over to the KolibriOS website and download the image from there. Just be sure your PC can handle the punishing system specs as listed on its wiki ...

The floppy disk, invented and made by IBM in 1967, was once the preferred format for storing files and transferring them between computers – but you'd be lucky to find one being used today.

Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. 'We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,' Kono told Reuters news agency earlier today.

The experiment was conducted by tuition service Explore Learning at one of its learning centres in London. Its experts presented 10-year-olds with four devices – a floppy disk, a cassette, an ...

Meet the 126GB floppy drive. This clever hack comes to us thanks to YouTube user Dr. Moddnstine (via Geek.com), who hacked an SD Card into an old floppy drive. And believe it or not, it actually ...

Oh, here, instead of relying on me transliterating the noises floppy disks make, watch the video. I’m not suggesting Apple is wrong to have abandoned this modular approach, incidentally.