[Retromaster’s] Ultimate Floppy Emulator is a wicked display of hardware mastery. It is the culmination of several design stages aimed at replacing an Amiga floppy drive with a modern storage solution ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Dell Computer Co. said it will discontinue floppy disk drives as standard equipment in its higher end Dimension 8250 desktop computers, effective next month. "When ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

Like vinyl records and eight-track tapes, floppy drives are slowly succumbing to the march of technology. Dell Computer Corp., one of the world's largest computer makers, said Wednesday it will stop ...

Data storage mechanisms have come a long way since IBM proudly introduced the first "memory disk" in 1971. By the end of the '70s, a number of manufacturers were churning out 5.25-in. floppy disks.

Silent, an electronics hobbyist in Poland, hacked a couple floppy drives to play The Imperial March, as seen in the first video after the jump. Although this isn’t the first time this has been done ...

Let’s go on a quick journey together. Take a deep, calming breath. It’s 1996. You’re looking fly and drinking Surge. You’re playing solitaire on a Gateway 2000 PC, but you know you need to get some ...

Cool find! The combination of DVD and floppy disks initially seems bizarre, but if the system was introduced in 1998 it kind of makes sense. DVD had been out for about 2 years at that point, but there ...

If you've used a Windows PC, you might have noticed that the main system drive is labeled "C:" by default and caught yourself wondering what happened to "A:" or "B:". After all, the alphabet doesn't ...