We checked the Silverstone FLP01 manual and it shows that to gain access to the system internals the top cover slides back ...

That isn’t the case for everyone, though, as plenty of places still rely on antiquated tech, as we’re about to see. Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete ...

The simplicity and reliability in certain controlled environments make floppy disks surprisingly resilient. Even as storage capacities and transfer speeds of modern devices have soared, the humble ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades ... and no doubt a more permanent version could be built with a 3D-printed case. We’re fascinated by the recent ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010, those who are still using this type of storage medium ... In this case one of the bad disks was fixed, while ...

In either case, it would have been a single-sided, 8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data. Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then when our other portable storage ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...