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Commemorative golden Doom floppy disks go up for pre-order — pair of limited edition dummy ‘imitation gold plating’ disks and a box are $30 at GameStop (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Mark Tyson | tags: doom, fanattik, gamestop

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A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk (techspot.com)

2026-07-20 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: floppy disk, 2p game arcade, game development

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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: floppy disk, game development, 2p_game_arcade

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Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: drive, floppy, hardware

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Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | by Various Contributors | tags: disk, disks, drive

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We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | by Cyrus Lopez | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: autoexec.bat, floppy disk, modem

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HamsterOS: A graphical desktop OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Donald Papp | tags: hamsteros, greasweazle, vintage hardware

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The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get Digital Privacy and Security Book → | tags: web, open standards, search engines

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The Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972 — when 80KB took up 8 inches and were really floppy (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-06 | by Mark Tyson | get 3.5 Inch Floppy Disk → | tags: disk, disks, floppies

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86Box v6.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | get 86Box Emulator Software → | tags: 86box, hardware, networking

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get Floppy Disk Data Recovery Kit → | tags: floppy disks, data preservation, cambridge university

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-05-26 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get USB Floppy Disk Drive → | tags: floppy disks, data preservation, cambridge university

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Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | get Commodore 64 Mini → | tags: commodore 64, soul player c64, 6502 assembly

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Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s (slashdot.org)

2026-04-19 | by Posted | get USB Flash Drive → | tags: zip drive, iomega, floppy disk

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Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-10 | by Jowi Morales | get USB to Floppy Drive Adapter → | tags: tesla, linux kernel, floppy drive

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This $28 floppy disk SSD enclosure is a fun and fast way to keep your storage safe — both practical and nostalgic, this rugged USB-C aluminum enclosure for M.2 drives supports speeds of up to 1,200 MB/s (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-31 | by Ben Stockton | get M.2 SSD Enclosure → | tags: hagibis, m.2 nvme, usb-c

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In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | get Robot → | tags: maxell, floppy disk, pc mag

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The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | by Mack Degeurin | get Floppy Disk → | tags: disks, floppies, floppy

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The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | get Shufflepuck → | tags: apple ii, shufflepuck cafe, glider

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Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-03 | get Floppy Disk Drive → | tags: arch, directory, floppinux

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A web server on a single floppy disk (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-29 | get Floppy Disk Server → | tags: disk, floppy, floppy disk

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Floppy disk drive converted into smart TV remote for kids — dev’s toddler inserts vividly labeled floppies to watch his favorite shows (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-18 | by Mark Tyson | get Floppy disk drive → | tags: disk, floppy, floppy disk

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Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | get Discs → | tags: disks, disks turn, floppy

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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 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-05 | by Ben Stockton | get Pixel Art → | tags: diagram, disk, floppy

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Taiwan's iPass Releases Floppy Disk Pre-Paid Cash Card (slashdot.org)

2025-12-27 | by Posted | get Floppy Disk → | tags: card, comes, disk

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Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan — NFC payment method 'only has a card function' warns supplier, so keep it out of your FDD (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Mark Tyson | get Smartcard → | tags: card, cards, disk

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Floppy Disk / Diskettes // retrocmp / retro computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Thomas Brase | get productivity planner → | tags: 25, 3m, disks

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Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Eleanor Parmenter | get science reference book → | tags: cambridge, digital, disks

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YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch (engadget.com)

2025-10-31 | get Chromecast → | tags: disk, drive, floppy

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Maingear’s Retro95 combines ’90s-era PC design with modern specs (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Tom Warren | get smartphone → | tags: drive, floppy, maingear