Floppy Disks

How Many Floppy Disks Do I Need To Load Photoshop, Again?

5:00AM November 17, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

These brilliant posters spell out the number of floppies needed to load iTunes, Firefox and even Photoshop. I’m so glad we only have to insert one disc instead of 358 floppies for Photoshop CS4 these days. [Behance via Photojojo]

Ladies, Please Don’t Rely On A Floppy Disk For Self-Defence

1:40PM August 31, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

101 Weapons for Women is probably a lovely book with plenty of great suggestions as to what can be used as an improvised weapon in case of danger, but I really don’t think a floppy disk belongs among those things. More »

Floppy Disk Desk

8:00AM June 3, 2010 | Mark Wilson

To think, our children won’t be able to build colourful desks out of nostalgic media formats because cloud distribution is inherently less wasteful. The shame! [Humbleablog via Unplggd]

Another Format Bites The Dust: Sony Discontinues Floppy Disks

4:36PM April 26, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

What, wait? Sony’s been churning out floppy disks all these years? And 12m were sold last year in Japan alone? I guess that’s not enough though – as Sony Japan will cease selling them March 2011. [Akihabara News]

Floppy Disk Post-It Notes Make You Remember Pens Too

8:14PM April 20, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Call me old-fashioned, but I do think these floppy disk sticky notes are a lot more fun than the iPhone and iPad variants. Sure, you can’t design apps in the blank space… but you can come up with fun fake filenames! More »

Percussion Instrument Made From Old Floppy Disks

9:00AM April 1, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Making pleasing noises your ears will appreciate, and looking like dinosaur bones that have been strung up together by a crafter, this is a 21st century version (or should that be 20th century?) version of the traditional kokiriko instrument. More »

Floppy Disk Ceramic Tiles Store No Data Except For Your Grime

9:40PM March 31, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Your wife may be leaning towards the fired damasco renaissance tiles, but you know better. You know to shop around before heading down to Tiles Etc. You know to look at Gizmodo — your friendly floppy disk tiles purveyor. More »

Floppy Disk Paintings Redefine Renaissance Art

10:00AM January 29, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

British artist Nick Gentry’s paintings give long-forgotten floppy disks a new lease on life. They’re still storage media, just in a much more literal sense. More »

3.5′ Floppy Disk RAID Array Provides Nearly 4MB of Usable Space

5:15AM May 24, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

What to do with a mess of floppy disk drives, an iMac straight out of 1995, and some free time? Daniel Blade Olson whipped up what’s almost certainly the world’s first (and only) RAID array using floppies.

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Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?

6:00AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Now this is one amazing Goodwill find: A vintage pop-up book designed to teach burgeoning nerds about the wonders of the modern computer. Floppy disks, ASCII, and the dot-matrix printer. Oh my.

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