Tag: FLOPPY

Sometimes aging computer components can be repurposed to create beautiful music, but most of the time they simply make a terrifying racket. Thankfully, this video is evidence of the former. YouTube user FunToTheHead arranged Bach's 'Toccata and Fugue' for a floppy drive quartet, with four drives blasting one of the most iconic melodies ever concocted. ...

Share For the past few years, a beloved staple of our technological upbringing has been dying a slow, painful death before our very eyes. Now, one major company has taken it upon itself to pull the plug on its trademark floppy disk, effectively putting an end to the 3.5-inch era. On April 23rd, Sony announced that it would begin phasing out the sale of its floppy disks in Japan, ...

If you're old enough to remember floppy disks, you're old enough to remember the days of installing programs 1.4 megabytes at a time. A blank CD-R can store something like 500 times that amount of information, and a DVD-R many times more than that, so even we nostalgic old-timers aren't quite willing to go back to the ways of exchanging files by floppy. But, if you're dying for a taste of the ...