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Roland MT-80S, A 1990s Boombox That Plays MIDI Music Stored on 3.5″ Floppy Disks
Mat Taylor of the interesting tech blog and YouTube channel, Techmoan, took a look the Roland MT-80S, a portable music player from the late 1990s…

Game of Thrones Theme Played on an Orchestra of 64 Floppy Drives, 8 Hard Drives and 2 Scanners
Pawel Zadrozniak, who is also known as “Silent”, has programmed his Floppotron, an electronic orchestra made up of sixty-four floppy drives, eight hard disks and…

Floppy Disk and Vinyl Record USB Mug Warmers
The Fowndry is offering Hot Disk USB Mug Warmers that are available as a 3.5″ floppy disk or vinyl record. Each mug warmer plugs directly…

A Data Recovery Team Successfully Restores Nearly 200 Floppy Disks Owned by Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry
A data recovery team at DriveSavers has successfully restored nearly 200 floppy disks owned by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. The recovery process took nearly…

An Eerie Version of ‘The Final Countdown’ Played on 64 Floppy Drives, 8 Hard Drives, and 2 Scanners
Pawel Zadrozniak a.k.a. “Silent” has programmed the electronic orchestra of sixty-four floppy drives, eight hard disks and two scanners contained in his wonderful Floppotron to…

A Brilliantly Edited Time-Lapse Music Video That Uses Cassette Tapes, Floppy Disks, and an Old Walkman
Award-winning Australian animator Jonathan Chong of Dropbear Digital has created a brilliantly animated time-lapse music video for the song “Quack Fat” by Melbourne-based DJ Opiuo.…

Digitize the Planet, An Online Resource That Helps People Digitally Archive Their Non-Digital Data
Filmmaker and archivist Jason Scott, who recently announced the Archive Corps volunteer collective, has also announced the formation of a related project named Digitize the…

‘Data’s Lil’ Girl’, An Illustration of a Mustached 5 1/4-Inch Floppy Disk Father & His 3 1/2-Inch Diskette Daughter
Data’s Lil’ Girl is a cute illustration by Dallas-based artist David Soames (previously) of a mustached 5 1/4-inch floppy disk father hugging his little 3…

Artist Nick Gentry Paints Wonderful Portraits on Collaged Film Negatives
British artist Nick Gentry paints portraits directly on collaged film negatives in his wonderful new portrait series. The series is part of Gentry’s upcoming solo…