If anyone has been struggling to get hold of a 3.5″ floppy drive lately, we think we’ve got a clue as to why — behold, the mighty floppotron 3.0 by [Paweł Zadrożniak.] With an utterly bonkers 512 ...

Many performers, including singers and musicians, credit YouTube for giving them the exposure they needed to eventually gain fame and fortune. But one performer who ...

When I was a kid growing up in rural Yorkshire, one of the regular attractions at local fairs was a huge steam-powered organ: a baroque monstrosity of pipes, horns, and whistles that would parp out ...

Back in the era when floppy drives came with home computers, PCs made a lot of noise starting up. They made a kind of music as the motors in the floppy drives buzzed and clunked, the hard drive spun ...

Wham!'s 1984 hit "Last Christmas" is an established song that you hear in the holiday season. But Polish engineer Pawel Zadrozniak has found a way to put on a twist on how you hear this perennial ...

The Floppotron must want something from the human race. Its mission never seems to be complete. Has it gained sentience yet? If so, are its intentions benign or malignant? Humanity waits and wonders.

Every March 10 the gaming world comes together for MAR10 Day to celebrate everyone’s favorite mustachioed plumber, Mario. No YouTube channel puts a spin on the classic Mario music for MAR10 Day quite ...

In a nutshell: The Floppotron 3.0 is comprised of a whopping 512 floppy disk drives, 16 traditional hard drives and four flatbed scanners. It uses new firmware that was written from scratch and is ...

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What would Toto's "Africa" sound like played not by musical instruments, but antiquated computer equipment? Now we know the answer to this question, thanks to an ingenious musical instrument called ...

If you want to “Rickroll” someone in retro style, what better way than with YouTube’s very own “Floppotron.” The monstrous creation of retro technologies, most notably a number of 5.25 inch floppy ...