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.

The first test used the Floppy Emu, a neat device that allows old Macs to read disk ... drive did not. Some disks simply didn’t work, although [Pierre] is chalking that one up to a problem with ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches ... CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable ...

The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

If you have an external hard drive or USB drive that you cannot format from File Explorer, you can check out this guide. It will help you to format the external hard drive or USB drive using ...

Pure Thunderbolt external SSDs can be even pricier, as they’re almost all sold by Mac-oriented boutique vendors such as OWC and Sabrent. The top drive uses the older, slower Mini-USB interface.

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 ...

The "go-to" name in floppy emulation for many retro enthusiasts is Gotek, with a drive which can emulate a plethora of floppy disk formats ... It also has optional USB-C support.

(1) An external storage or optical disc drive that plugs into the USB port. See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage module that plugs into the computer's USB port. Emerging just ...

programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used as a portable means of storage and for backups. A solid-state drive (SSD) uses technology similar to that of USB drives ...

On a personal level - I have access to lots of computers, but none have a floppy disk drive or an optical drive. However, I keep a USB DVD-RW drive for the odd occasion that I need to dig out an ...