No matter what the size—eight-inch, 5 1/4-inch, 3 1/2-inch—floppy disks are the most iconic symbols of old-school computing. But how do they actually work? The 8-Bit Guy spends 15 minutes breaking ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, […] ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

San Francisco is not yet done using obsolete, retro technology known as 'floppy disks,' particularly for some of its operations on the city trains. More specifically, the 5.25-inch floppy disks are ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...