Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful ... who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

It’s an impressive hack that shows that preservation-grade backups of floppy disks can be achieved without spending big money or using specialist hardware. We’ve seen other projects in this ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

In either case, it would have been a single-sided, 8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data. Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then when our other portable storage ...

The simplicity and reliability in certain controlled environments make floppy disks surprisingly resilient. Even as storage capacities and transfer speeds of modern devices have soared, the humble ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

One of the most curious examples relating to “modern” uses of floppy disk comes from the musical world. ESTEN KRAFTa musician and YouTuber Norwegian, preserves a vast collection of floppy disk he uses ...