Does anyone know how I can get data off vintage 8" floppy disks. I have the disks and an external drive. I tried it on a 386 with no success. I suspect I will need to run it on an old 8088, but am ...

As a fan of music, this is pretty cool. Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak has created a “PC hardware orchestra” that plays tunes through floppy disks and other computer hardware parts. The Floppotron 3 ...

At first sight, Floppy-8 is simply a LattePanda based PC built into the shell of a external vintage floppy drive. Indeed, it’s a very nicely executed LattePanda PC in a floppy, and we’r… ...

Somewhere in the middle is the old 8 inch floppy drive. At its peak, you could cram about 1.2 megabytes on it, but even with the drive you could lift it all in one hand.

How to Emulate a Floppy Disk Drive. Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless ...

Plug in the disk drive, insert a disk, and modern Android phone should be able to read data from the disk. You can then copy data to and from the drive or run applications. Since Lazy Game Reviews ...

Other systems have faced similar challenges. For instance, the U.S. Strategic Automated Command and Control System used 8-inch floppy disks until 2019 before switching to solid-state storage.

Workers wipe hard drives with magnets, shred small appliances, and bundle old cables like bales of multi-coloured hay. Stacks of dingy grey computer towers – some with now-ancient floppy disk ...

Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy disk drives. … In 1998, an estimated 2 billion floppy disks were sold, according to the Recording Media Industries Association of ...