He’s made a 3.5″ floppy disk that eschews 720 k, 1.44 M, or even 2.88 Mb, and goes all the way with a claimed 512 Gb capacity. We’re sure we can’t remember these from back in the day!

Yes it is possible. I did it back in the day. The only trouble is the donor floppy has to be the same exact spring/shutter. Is it not possible to make a copy of that disk?

Sony introduced the first 3.5 inch floppy disk in 1981, and until recently it was the largest supplier of the floppy disks around the world. But Sony pretty much stamped out worldwide distribution ...

I had maybe one 3.5" DD Amiga disk go bad. I don't recall any failures with the 3.5" HD disks I used on my Macs, but by that point I was only using them for installations.

A 10-pack of Sony 3.5-inch floppy disks, which altogether total less than 15 megabytes of memory, sells in central Tokyo for about $6 US, according to PC Magazine.

Charles Mangin from Option8 managed to cram a USB stick into an old floppy in such a way that’s just fresh enough to be a DIY project I wouldn’t mind attempting myself. The hack actually ...

If you have some old floppy disks lying around, then you may want to check out this fun DIY USB drive which was made using an old 3.5 inch floppy. This fun USB drive was made by Charles Mangin ...

The 3.5-inch floppy disk, with blank adhesive label for noting its contents. Wikipedia The days of the 3.5-inch floppy disk are now officially numbered.

For a Glimpse Of The Future, Try Reading A 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk In his low-tech data recovery operation (old computers), Tom Persky is witnessing the first round of personal digital data decay.

There was a time when booting Linux from a floppy disk was the norm, but of course, those days are long gone. Even if you still had a working 3.5 inch drive, surely the size of the modern kernel ...