While the whole build is impressive, the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular USB flash drive when inserted into the floppy drive.

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 ...

There’s also an internal floppy drive that’s had its eject mechanism cleverly motorized, along with a modified USB battery bank that should keep the whole show running for about an hour.

Suppose you want to transfer data from your current PC to an older PC that only has a floppy drive. Not only do you need the USB-compatible 3.5-inch floppy drive for your current PC, but you’ll ...

A disk file that simulates a floppy disk. It is used to duplicate floppies, to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require ...

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the ... but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage medium ...

As computer networking and new storage formats like USB flash drives and memory cards emerged, the floppy disk's reign waned in the mid-to-late 1990s. The end of the floppy disk era came with the ...

and USB thumb drives so cheap they are trade show giveaways. 2009 was a difficult year for floppy disc manufacturing, but the business is actually rebounding a bit in 2010, said Will Qualls ...