I’ve been writing about technology since the early 1990s and have used a vast array of tech products over the decades, moving ...

He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors have the same spacing as SD cards. Add in a hacked USB card reader, some careful cutting and assembly, and [gilmour509] has a very ...

So is it all just academic? Is there really any reason to use a floppy disk in 2022? The fine folks at Adafruit would argue that the skills necessary to read usable data out of a stream of ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

Software Write Protection. Hardware writes protection is mostly available in the card reader or floppy disks. In hardware write protection there will be a mechanical switch at the side of the card ...

but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli ...

Now there's word that one of the biggest municipal train systems in the US is being run in part by three 5-inch floppy disks. According to KGO-TV News, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...

"The government still uses floppy disks? That's so outdated... I guess they're just full of old people," read another comment on X. Others comments were more nostalgic. “I wonder if floppy disks ...