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 ...

Those of us of advancing years will remember the era of the floppy disc. Maybe not that of the 8-inch drive, but probably its 5.25-inch and certainly its 3.5-inch cousins. Some will remember the ...

PCs used two types of floppy ... hole in the upper left corner. IBM offered an extra-high density 2.88MB drive on selected PCs that was backward compatible, but the format never caught on. Floppy ...

They were made from a thin piece of magnetized material encased in a protective plastic envelope, with a central hole for the drive's spindle. The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by ...

(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 ...

Created by Neulant van Exel, a Berlin-based design duo comprised of an architect and a sculptor, Floppytable sees the floppy disk blown up to epic proportions given a set of sturdy legs.

Floppy disks (FDs ... A thin plastic disk was covered by a thin plastic case, and the read/write head of the drive accessed the disk through a hole in the case. As the name suggests, the size ...

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 earlier today. The milestone, decades after ...

If you want to continue down the floppy disk rabbit hole, the interview comes from a book called Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium (it’s more readily and inexpensively ...

Now, astronomers have finally spotted the black hole’s faintly glowing accretion disk of infalling material, long suspected but never before seen. “I was very surprised that we actually saw it ...

an underground area near Pack-a-Punch. The zombie is distinguishable by the lab coat and the glowing eyes. To kill it will drop the Floppy Disk. Once you have your hand over the disk, make your ...

has now declared “war” on a technology many haven’t seen for decades -- the floppy disk. The hand-sized, square-shaped data storage item, along with similar devices including the CD or even ...