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 ... hacked USB card reader, some careful ...

Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he tests the drive’s components and explores whether the fault lies with the read/write head or electronic systems.

As computer networking and new storage formats like USB flash drives and memory ... from the 1990s were built to read patterns and designs from floppy disks. Some older industrial machines and ...