Overall, the experience reinforced that floppy disks aren’t interchangeable carriers; they are unique artifacts with their ...

I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year. Sony, one of a ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of Congress ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

Floppy disks were officially deemed obsolete in 2010, yet persisted in surprising places for years Polymatt used CNC machining and PET film to craft a functioning magnetic storage disk Iron oxide ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...

One of the world’s most technologically advanced nations has held on to some of the most outmoded devices. By John Yoon Hisako Ueno and Kiuko Notoya Hisako Ueno has used floppy disks extensively.

The Japanese government is slowly moving into the current age of technology, where it's finally starting to change: the Japanese government will soon no longer require businesses to provide ...