Collaborate Disseminate
In this episode of [Adrian’s Digital Basement], we dive into the world of retro computing with a focus on diagnosing and repairing an old full-height 5.25-inch floppy drive from an …read more Continue reading How to Revive a Tandon Floppy Drive
Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, …read more Continue reading Flux is Your Friend for Archiving Old Floppy Disks
[CuriousMarc] has a pile of 8-inch drives, all marked bad. You can’t just pop over to the computer store and buy a new one these days, so it was off …read more Continue reading [CuriousMarc] Repairs a Floppy
We get results! Well, sort of. You may recall that in this space last week we discussed Ford’s plans to exclude AM reception on the infotainment systems of certain of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 19, 2023
At first sight, Floppy-8 is simply a LattePanda based PC built into the shell of a external vintage floppy drive. Indeed, it’s a very nicely executed LattePanda PC in a …read more Continue reading Floppy-8 is a Tiny PC in a Floppy Drive
Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside floppy enthusiasts needn’t fret — just use AOL keyword point that browser toward floppydisk.com. There, you can buy new …read more Continue reading Floppy Disk Sales Are Higher-Density Than You Might Think
Ahh, floppy disks. Few things carry nostalgia quite like a floppy — either 3 1⁄2 or 5 1⁄4, depending on which generation of hacker you happen to be. (And yes, …read more Continue reading Magnetic Maniac Manages Mangled Memory
In need of a floppy controller for a 286 he was working on, [Gadget Reboot] took to GitHub to see what was available in the open hardware space. There he …read more Continue reading Up Close And Personal With an 8x Floppy Controller
It wasn’t long after early humans started banging rocks together that somebody in the tribe thought they could improve on things a bit by doing it with a little rhythm. …read more Continue reading Live Floppy Music Adds Elegance to Any Event
There are times when a technology goes almost overnight as if in a puff of smoke, and others when they fade away gradually over time to the point at which …read more Continue reading The 512 Gigabyte Floppy Disk