Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside floppy enthusiasts needn’t fret — just use AOL keyword point that browser toward floppydisk.com. There, you can buy new floppies of ...

When was the last time that you used a floppy disk? While still used as the save icon in modern software packages like Microsoft’s Office suite, it’s unusual to see one out in the wild. Given that a ...

But seriously, how are so many industries still using magnetic disks, even now? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Way back in ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

When Gene Vance is asked about the history of his family’s construction company and says “it’s a long story”, he isn’t necessarily referring to the length of the story he’s about to tell. The real ...

A business owner who says he's "the last man" still selling floppy disc - the bygone computer technology that was thought to have gone the way of the 8-track - says that airlines are among his biggest ...

What do floppy disks and the cancellation or delay of over a hundred flights at the Newark airport have in common? Well, in an age where we are talking about quantum computing and light-based data ...

Tom Persky, founder of floppydisk.com, sells and recycles the archaic storage devices. He says in a new book that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers. "Probably half of the air fleet ...

M-Systems FlashDisc (http://rbi.ims.ca/4924-548). The decline of floppy diskettes and broad acceptance of USB Flash drives led M-System's engineers to define a new ...