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Developer turns floppy disks into secret black-and-white picture canvases — pbm2track paints pixel art into the disk's magnetic timing diagram

The pbm2track tool repurposes a floppy disk's track timing diagram into a secret tool for hiding pixel images.
Digital Spy

Floppy disk drive makes orchestral comeback for 'The Sound of Silence'

An orchestral cover of Simon & Garfunkel's 'The Sound of Silence', by a cluster of floppy disk drives, is not something you probably expected to hear... Just when you thought those floppy disks had no ...
PC Gamer

Here's a stunning orchestral arrangement played by HDDs, floppy drives, and scanners

Bravo to the third generation of this hardware orchestra! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. PC music has come to mean a lot ...
PC Gamer

Floppy disks aren't dead yet as this San Francisco train line relies on three of them to run every morning

The sound of a crunching floppy disk drive may well be the soundtrack to a large part of my misspent youth. Please insert disk four of five. Oh you've lost it? No games for you, little Andy. No games ...
Ars Technica

Why the floppy disk just won’t die

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...