You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk ... bag. [Ladyada] pulls one apart on camera to show that what you’re actually getting with one of these units is a new old stock laptop ...

He refreshes the batteries, fixes the keyboard and trackpad, removes the floppy, adds USB ports and WiFi to end up with a ghoulish, but functional machine: The Franken-laptop! I have been known to ...

The 720KB 3.5" floppy was introduced on IBM's Convertible laptop. Capacity doubled to ... but the format never caught on. Floppy Disk Formats 720KB 3.5" DS/DD 1.44MB 3.5" DS/HD 2.88MB 3.5" DS ...

(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 ...