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 ...

Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy disks, and hard disk drives, and after several decades ...

If you still use an older PC that relies on floppy disks for data transfers, you should consider adopting a modern alternative when you can. An IDE-to-SD-card adapter or SATA-to-SD-card adapter is ...

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Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data. All the software and programmes they ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy ... disks to the aircraft to update the flight management system. The operation takes about an hour.” The updates contain essential data ...

Floppy disks are facing extinction ... and it’s not easy to show something in such a small amount of data.” According to Floppy Totaal’s Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaar, Discogs is ...

They fit a mere megabyte of data — enough for a few seconds of video. "Floppy disk production ended 10 years ago, and we've urged that bank to go online," a spokeswoman for the city's accounting ...

Until recently there were about 1,900 regulatory procedures in Japan that required companies to submit additional data in the form of floppy disks or CD-ROMs, Computerwoche said. By the middle of ...

has now declared “war” on a technology many haven’t seen for decades -- the floppy disk. The hand-sized, square-shaped data storage item, along with similar devices including the CD or even ...

By comparison, it would take more than 22,000 standard floppy disks containing 1.44 MB of data to match the storage of a single 32 GB thumb drive. Japan's modernisation push began in 2021 during ...