There’s also an internal floppy drive that’s had its eject mechanism cleverly motorized, along with a modified USB battery bank that should keep the whole show running for about an hour.

While the whole build is impressive, the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular USB flash drive when inserted into the floppy drive.

A cheap 8 GB USB thumb drive gave you far more storage, after all. So, now they remain something of a curio for those ...

(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 ...

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the ... but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage medium ...

programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used as a portable means of storage and for backups. A solid-state drive (SSD) uses technology similar to that of USB drives ...

but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli ...

"The utility of a floppy disk is just no longer there for most users," Bajarin said. Dell brand 16-megabyte USB flash memory drives will be offered standard in Dimension's high-end model first and ...