Holding on to a cache of old floppies because nostalgia? Us too, and this might be the coolest possible use for ’em. While it’s fun to imagine that he wrote a compression algorithm to fit a lossless ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, […] ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Ah, the good ol’ YouTube cover, where no song is too sacred to screw with. There are screaming goat remixes of Bon Jovi and Alicia Keys, a shooting range rendition of the Cups ...

YouTube isn't exactly short of low-tech musical recreations of famous songs, particularly when it comes to the humble floppy drive. The once ubiquitous storage device has belted out classics like ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer and case made to look like a 1995 IBM Aptiva. While the whole build is impressive, the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy ...

Let’s go on a quick journey together. Take a deep, calming breath. It’s 1996. You’re looking fly and drinking Surge. You’re playing solitaire on a Gateway 2000 PC, but you know you need to get some ...

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

Data storage mechanisms have come a long way since IBM proudly introduced the first "memory disk" in 1971. By the end of the '70s, a number of manufacturers were churning out 5.25-in. floppy disks.

Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government. The announcement (Japanese, machine translated) last ...

Can I hook up a 3.5" floppy disk drive to a standard IDE port?<P>Or rather, does any company make a model that can?<P>The reason I ask is because my motherboard is broken and no combination of floppy ...