More loyal readers (read: those willing to sit through a video featuring me) might remember a spot we did on turning an old floppy disk into a USB drive. The results were disastrous, involving ...

The coolest concepts are always the simplest ones, and the USB Floppy Drive from designer Thomas O’Connor is no different. Shaped like an old school floppy drive, this USB drive can store a lot more ...

We love wrapping new technology in our retro gadgets here at Lifehacker, and if you've got a pile of old floppies lying around, you can use them as USB storage with this clever hack. DIYer Charles ...

Back in the day, the floppy drive was all the rage. Being able to transport your data from one PC to another, all thanks to this small, square thing that could usually fit right into your pocket. Of ...

Most retro gamers use emulators to play old school games on their Android device, but iIf you still have your old floppy disk games and a USB floppy drive ($11 at Amazon) you can play them on your ...

I have a TEAC USB floppy drive. The closest I can get to an ID is "TEAC USB UF000x USB Device". The problem is that at times the drive will not correctly display the contents of the floppy disk. "dir ...

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

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...

It's not often that a product makes us go "but why?" then "oh I see" and then "but why?" in such rapid succession, but the HP USB Floppy Drive Key has managed it. At first glance a standard USB memory ...

That the USB thumb drive is the natural descendent of the floppy disk is certain. They both suffer from the same advantages and problems: portable and convenient, yet cheap, plastic and all too ...