New storage systems, coupled with a need to store more than the 1.44 megabytes of data held by a standard floppy, have led to its demise. Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy ...

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, ...

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 ...

But these floppy drives didn’t have a “controller” built in, they just give out signal data as the disk is spinning, including an index pulse to indicate the “start point” of the rotation.

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. Advertisement.

The experiment was conducted by tuition service Explore Learning at one of its learning centres in London. Its experts presented 10-year-olds with four devices – a floppy disk, a cassette, an ...

The U.S. Air Force says a decades-old communications system that relied on 8-inch floppy disks in the event of a nuclear strike has been upgraded to solid-state digital storage.