or somehow rolled his own mini-disc, [Dino Fizzotti]’s Diskplayer uses floppies to serve up Spotify albums. What’s actually on the floppy, then? The corresponding Spotify album URL.

Answering demand for a smaller format diskette that was more manageable and affordable for desktop word processing machines of the day, Shugart's team designed a 5.25-inch 'mini floppy' disk in ...

In 2022, Japan's digital minister "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech like CDs and mini-discs, after a committee discovered nearly 2,000 areas in which businesses were still ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...