Reader Matthew Carpenter sees our DIY floppy disk pen holder and raises us one: His version is a complete box with a latched lid, made from the disk's metal slider. Using six old floppy disks, two ...

Remember floppy disks? I, for one, have not forgotten them. That’s probably because I have about 50 collecting dust in an old box that hails from the ’90s. Randy Sarafan, author of a new book ...

You see them sometimes at garage sales or thrift stores, lying forlornly in a cardboard box, the music of some pop-music star of the early 1970s locked within their plastic cases, never to be ...

Navigation data aboard Boeing 747-436 airliners was updated via 3.5" floppy disks and a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 boffin at Deutsche Bahn appeared on a German job site in 2024.

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.

Investigators, recognizing the opportunity, ran the requested ad. Two weeks later, on February 16, 2005, a package containing a floppy disk arrived at KSAS-TV in Wichita. Detectives got to work: ...

Think back. Wayyy back. Remember floppy disks? If you’re like me, you’ve probably got a box of them in a closet, serving absolutely no practical use. (When was the last time you owned, or even ...

Got six floppy disks? Need to carry a minute amount of crap around with you? Then check out this video, which details how to turn six 3.5-inch floppies into a little box, complete with carrying ...

If data like that ever got wiped, he knows he could never find the original source again. So, as well as the thousands of floppy disks he keeps in boxes in his house in Norway, Kraft has backups, too.

Floppy disks are ideal "floppy table" stabilisers, whether in the dining room or on the patio. They are also good for wedges filling in gaps where wood has to be cut. I have also embossed them in a ...

When an idea for a new piece of music begins swirling in Espen Kraft's mind, he turns to one of his many boxes of floppy disks. Flipping open the lid, the musician and YouTuber from Norway stares ...