Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions.

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...

Chances are, you do not. What you need is a giant, dedicated Save keyboard that looks like a floppy disk. Image by [Makestreme] via Hackaday.IO [Makestreme] recently started creating YouTube ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

1983 saw the introduction of arguably the most enduring floppy disk, the 3.5-inch. Storage for a single-sided disk was 360 kilobytes, but was quickly upgraded to 720 kilobytes with double-sided media.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...