A dad turned floppy disks into a toddler TV remote, and somehow it works better than smart screens ...
The pbm2track tool repurposes a floppy disk's track timing diagram into a secret tool for hiding pixel images.
even though it's been decades since we relied on the 3.5-inch disks "People who go in the back of their warehouse and might find a pallet or two of the floppy disks and they're about to take them to ...
Sony, the last major floppy-disk maker, stopped production of the storage media a decade ago. The Japanese government has been struggling to digitize and modernize its systems for decades. Floppy ...
It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...
Famously, the save icon on most computer user interfaces references a fairly obsolete piece of technology: the venerable ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Floppy disks -- who needs 'em? They're not practical for storing digital photos, MP3 compressed music files or any of the other accoutrements of the digital lifestyle. They don't ...
In my pre-teen and teenage years, there were few things that made me happier than going on adventures to other worlds. I carried around the “portals” to those worlds in a clear plastic box full of ...
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 ...
That'll a be a huge, 50-storey, fully-carpeted yep according to YouTuber DocJade. He decided that installing and running the ...
The Japanese government still requires some of its agencies to save data on CDs and even floppy disks, Japanese English-language newspaper Nikkei Asia reports. Needless to say, those are some ...
Tokyo — With its azure ocean views and terraced rice paddies, the city of Hamada, population 50,000, is far from Japan's major urban centers of Tokyo and Osaka. But Hamada is no digital slouch. Just ...