On Reddit, u/SnapeSev reports the discovery of mysterious plastic disks that washed up on the Italian shore near Rogivo. They're flexible but hard and have the distinctive hyperbolic paraboloid ...

A read and write head pulled data from the magnetic medium shielded beneath the plastic coating. 8-inch disks came with a storage capacity of around 242 kilobytes, which was substantial for the era.

If that is the point at which you find yourself, then maybe [Austin]’s home-made electric disc shooter can help. Operation of the shooter is simple enough. A stack of 3D-printed plastic discs is ...

The attachment is either tied into the knot, or secured with a plastic disk. Either way, if these balloons are accidentally (or purposely) released, the attachment becomes litter and that's bad.

They were made from a thin piece of magnetized material encased in a protective plastic envelope, with a central hole for the drive's spindle. The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by ...

The company worked with recycling solutions provider Der Grüne Punkt and injection molding machine manufacturer Haitian on ...

J Sound Vib 2020; 469: 115144. 8. Sharma A and Jackson RL. A finite element study of an elasto-plastic disk or cylindrical contact against a rigid flat in plane stress with bilinear hardening. Tribol ...