Floppy disks are facing extinction, but musicians are still pumping out DIY music projects. The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive ...

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 ...

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 ...

The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to ...

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 ...