Or maybe there’s a spot in the disk that is going bad, and the stronger magnetic field is required to reset the floppy’s field. Let us know your guess, or if you know the answer, fill us in!

He grabbed a new picture of a floppy disk, added his own spin, and hit Tweet. Gross considered his message as more of a meme than a literal report of something that happened to him, though he ...

Perhaps floppy disks are "perfect reminders of how violently smashing bytes together on a thin, vulnerable plastic/magnet sandwich is still one of the most punk things you can do as a musician ...

For those unfamiliar, a floppy disk drive is a now antiquated device that read a flexible magnetic data storage disk, causing a grinding and humming sound familiar to early computer users.

A floppy disk is a flexible circle of plastic – the 'floppy' part – that's coated with a magnetic material and enclosed in a hard square plastic case. Data is arranged on the surface of the ...

The Floppy Orgel (that's Floppy Organ to the English-speaking folks of the world), consists of 49 old floppy disk drives mounted ... even has its own Know Your Meme page. That said, perhaps ...