The 1990s were a wild time for portable storage media. Companies left and right either tried to iterate on the tried-and-true 3.5-inch floppy design by creating larger, faster drives that dwarfed the ...

Not too long ago, part of using a computer was often finding the correct disk for the application you wanted to run and inserting it into your machine before you could start. With modern storage, this ...

If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk ...

Why Zip disks and LS-120s couldn't defeat the 1.44MB disk ...

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...

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Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

I don’t remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of Congress ...

I want to purchase a retail floppy drive, but can only seem to find oem ones online. Anyone here know of any retail floppy drives? Also does anyone here know the difference between the Mitsumi D359M3 ...