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 from , ...

We love wrapping new technology in our retro gadgets here at Lifehacker, and if you've got a pile of old floppies lying around, you can use them as USB storage with this clever hack. DIYer Charles ...

More loyal readers (read: those willing to sit through a video featuring me) might remember a spot we did on turning an old floppy disk into a USB drive. The results were disastrous, involving ...

If you’re a sysadmin, you may have noticed a somewhat annoying trend: computers — especially servers — rarely ship with floppy drives any more, and yet BIOS updates still often require that you boot ...

It's not often that a product makes us go "but why?" then "oh I see" and then "but why?" in such rapid succession, but the HP USB Floppy Drive Key has managed it. At first glance a standard USB memory ...

Back in the day, the floppy drive was all the rage. Being able to transport your data from one PC to another, all thanks to this small, square thing that could usually fit right into your pocket. Of ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

Developed during the 1960s, a Floppy Disk is certainly a thing of the past. But some users may still need it for some reason. Floppy drives were extensively used during the 1980s, 1990s, and early ...

That the USB thumb drive is the natural descendent of the floppy disk is certain. They both suffer from the same advantages and problems: portable and convenient, yet cheap, plastic and all too ...