The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch ...

This first ransomware payload was secreted on a 5.25-inch floppy disk titled "AIDS Information — Introductory Diskette 2.0" ...

That is, literally walking the information from one computer to another by hand carrying disks. In 1981, Sony introduced the 3.5-inch floppy disk. It quickly gained popularity due to its smaller ...

Although floppy disk music "peaked" in the 2010s ... storage", which forces users to "confront the transience of art and information in the face of time and decay". Maybe "one out of 100 floppies ...

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...

Seven floppy disks labelled top secret which may contain information relevant to the separate loyalist murders of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane and a high-profile IRA man have been discovered ...

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 ...

A simple floppy disk in the then common 5.25 inch format with the inscription "AIDS Information – Introductory Diskette 2.0" ...

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 ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway ...

(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 ...

Floppies were once the standard method of information exchange ... Starting with a disk caddy on linear rails, [Smith] has a track for the floppy to follow. First it goes through a set of pads ...