Once it’s all set up and working, the USB floppy drive will basically perform like a slow USB flash drive. You can drag-and-drop files into and out of the drive (assuming you have a floppy disk ...

Update: Games Industry.biz’s Chris Dring has added to the US data points below with trends in Europe. While the methodology is not identical to the one employed by Mat Piscatella and excludes ...

It was only a couple of decades ago that schools were filled with floppy disks, overhead projectors and cassette players. So it's testament to how quickly technology has changed that today's young ...

This isn’t ISO certified but the closest thing to solar eclipse glasses I could find was this piece of a 5 1/4” floppy disk I had in my closet. I knew these would come in handy one day.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's train system is not only relying on humans to run it, but turns out that a floppy disk plays a key role. ABC7 news reporter ...

How this latter came to be is the subject of an article by [Ernie Smith], focusing on floppy disk storage. Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or magnetic storage, their expertise ...

Floppy disks (FDs), magnetic disks that record information on personal computers, were widely used mainly from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. Programmer Jonathan Palant explains about such FD.

That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago that people saved their digital media to actual, physical floppy disks. Once an industry standard ...

Cheese employee called Stephen Coonrod shows how these animatronics are made to dance using floppy disks. You may like ... connected to both the floppy drive and various DVD players.

Hard disk drives have been around since the 1950s and were first created after IBM discovered the applications of the ‘Random Access File.’ From there, we saw each generation of hard disk ...

The hand-sized, square-shaped data storage item, along with similar devices including the CD or even lesser-known mini disk, are still required for some 1,900 government procedures and must go ...

Though it is largely forgotten today, the Intel 80286 was for a while in the 1980s the processor of choice and designated successor to the 8086 in the world of PCs. It brought a new mode that ...