The Pippin is rare, and that means the related accessories, ranging from magneto-optical drives to floppy drives, are incredibly hard to come by. Now, one of those peripherals isn’t rare ...

[Action Retro] has a great video showing just such an escapade, the creation of a large RAID 0 array using a pile of USB floppy drives. Yes, taking one of the smallest and most unreliable pieces ...

Windows 11 computers don’t come with floppy drives, so if you want to use floppy disks on a modern PC, you’ll need to buy a floppy drive. Fortunately, you can shop online right now and buy a ...

to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require one. Utility programs such as Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) can be used to ...

If you’ve ever clicked the little square “Save” button on your computer, you’ve used a relic of the past without even ...

(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 ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

ZIP drives and portable hard drives --especially keychain-sized flash memory devices -- have established themselves as far more useful. "The utility of a floppy disk is just no longer there for ...

The world of vintage computer collecting is a fascinating blend of history, nostalgia, and technological appreciation.

Sony was the last Japanese manufacturer of 3.5-inch floppy discs, but other vendors such as Imation and Maxell still offer them. The discs and the drives necessary to use them still remain ...