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.

This worked beautifully, but testing it out with a real floppy drive did not. Some disks simply didn’t work, although [Pierre] is chalking that one up to a problem with the USB floppy drive and ...

No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

I’ve been writing about technology since the early 1990s and have used a vast array of tech products over the decades, moving ...

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

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 utility of a floppy disk is just no longer there for most users," Bajarin said. Dell brand 16-megabyte USB flash memory drives will be offered standard in Dimension's high-end model first and ...

Storage capacities evolved to 250MB and 750MB in 1998 and 2002 respectively, but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like ...