From fax machines to floppy disks, many once-vital technologies have been consigned to the annals of work-life history, ...

FLOPPY DISK The floppy disk, invented and made by US tech giant IBM in 1967, was once the preferred format for storing files and transferring them between computers.

[Wehrdo] has posted a guide with an extremely low-tech solution to password management. He literally put the passwords on a floppy disk in the form of paper glued to the magnetic film. For those th… ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk ...

But the real deal-breaker is this: Unlike a floppy disk, you cannot simply add, delete or replace individual files on the disc. Instead, you have to erase the entire disc and start over.

Each floppy disk can fit about 11 minutes and 30 seconds of music. And while most modern computers don't have floppy disk drives on them anymore, Campbell says there's still a way for people to ...

When I wrote about a modern OS that could run on a floppy disk, I knew I had to try it. Something about going back to the old days when apps could fit within a 1.44MB disk format ...

The Japanese domestic floppy disk market amounted to about 12 million disks last year, of which Sony had a 70 percent share, it said. A 10-pack of Sony 3.5-inch floppy disks costs ¥570 (US$6) at ...

"I grew up with home computers, and I grew up with computer games, and the computer games from my generation, let's say, early 90s, were all on floppy disk," he explains. "It's my format of my youth.

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 ...

The floppy disk itself is made of foam board, and everything is encased in a picture frame. If you want to make one for yourself, [Makestreme] has some great instructions over on IO.