Serveal notable industries and organizations still use floppy disks, including the U.S. FAA and San Francisco's Muni Metro ...

However, with the invention of CDs, DVDs, and external USB drives with storage, the use of floppy disks eventually died with time. Most modern PCs today don’t even house floppy drives.

Reader Kristie wrote in with this puzzler: “I just found a shoebox full of 3.5-inch disks. I think they were from my old digital camera, but I have no way of finding out because I no longer have ...

There are no computers with built-in floppy drives left, so we had to source an external one,” Niazashvili says. “Then we take the disks to the aircraft to update the flight management system.

I’ve used all kinds of external storage devices, including 3.5-inch floppy discs and Zip drives ... making them more durable than hard-disk drives’ spinning platters. If portability isn ...

Several companies at the time sold external 3.5-inch USB floppy drives to plug into newer Macs so users could continue to read their disks. Today, even some external USB PC 3.5-inch floppy drives ...