Floppy disks get second life in a digital age — here’s which businesses still use them By . Reuters. Published Oct. 20, 2022. Updated Oct. 20, 2022, 3:03 p.m. ET. Explore More ...

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations.

Back in the early years of the personal computer, “FloppyData” may not have been recognizable by itself. But looking back on ...

In many ways, the floppy disk thrived in between the worlds of the cassette tape and the CD, offering an early glimpse of what could be possible with the digital experience.

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

Floppy disks made news recently when Japan's digital minister, Taro Kano, declared "a war" on the devices, tweeting earlier this month that Japan's digital agency would change regulations ...

Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, flop… ...

Japan's digital minister, Taro Kono, confirmed that the Japanese government has finally rid itself of floppy disks.… "We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!" digital minister Taro Kono ...

Kono’s war on floppy disks brings to mind another episode in 2018 when, a month after being appointed as Japan’s cyber-security minister, Yoshitaka Sakurada openly admitted that he’d never ...

Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. 'We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,' Kono told Reuters news agency earlier today.

Image: Getty Images / Saturno Dona' / EyeEm. Japan's digital minister has vowed to remove laws requiring that data sent to the government is shipped on floppy disks and other physical media.

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...