I'd like to be able to simultanously use both a 3.5" drive and a 5.25" drive in a Pentium Classic-era IBM Aptiva.<P>The 3.5" drive has been in the computer for a while, while I just recently picked up ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we still ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and Dropbox, it was the only viable way to store data portable. Where did they get ...

Pointless? Maybe, but count me in. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I'm sure this will be one for all of those who actually used ...

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 ...

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...