One piece of '90s tech that has seemingly been forgotten and never returned, though, is the floppy disk. Although it still holds on as the standard icon for the "Save" function in computers and apps, ...

In this episode of [Adrian’s Digital Basement], we dive into the world of retro computing with a focus on diagnosing and repairing an old full-height 5.25-inch floppy drive from an IBM 5150 s… ...

I've never once touched a floppy disk with my bare hands. Yet, I somehow feel quite a bit of nostalgia for the old bit of ...

If your PC friends keep sending you floppy disks, and you still have old backups you should transfer to another medium, the LaCie USB Pocket Floppy 4x is a sleek, portable drive that can give your ...

Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip disk and Floptical. (2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk developed by IBM and available on certain IBM PCs.

We no longer use floppy disks on the vast majority of computers, but a recent Old New Thing blog post from Microsoft sheds light on one of their possible unexpected legacies.It seems Windows disk ...

Tom Persky’s company, floppydisk.com, sells about 250,000 of the 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch square plastic storage cards each year.It has an inventory of about 1 million disks, many of which Persky ...

Tom's shop in Lake Forest is a time machine, filled with tens of thousands of those flat, square disks you really can't find anywhere anymore. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are.

Ever been nostalgic for the majesty of 1.44MB floppy disks, but wished they came with 91,000x the storage capacity? One capable modder has heard your cry. Behold: The 128GB floppy disk.