Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions.

PNG2disk is part of the Fluxfox project, a library for working with floppy disk images. Meanwhile LightScribe my have gone the way of the dodo, but if you have one you could try making your own ...

Chances are, you do not. What you need is a giant, dedicated Save keyboard that looks like a floppy disk. Image by [Makestreme] via Hackaday.IO [Makestreme] recently started creating YouTube ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

Floppy disks enabled anyone to create and sell programs ... using modems and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) to share programs, pictures, and data, we would share them by "sneakerware." ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...