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

“I personally think that the floppy disk should die,” says Florian Cramer, a writer and filmmaker who, in 2009, shrunk every Oscar-nominated film from that year into animated GIFs on two ...

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as reported by NPR, is looking to ditch the ancient technology of floppy disks and ...

The "floppy" emerged in around 1970 – so named because you could bend the original disks without breaking them. For about three decades, they were the main way people stored and backed up ...

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.

If you have a spare floppy disk lying around, pop over to the KolibriOS website and download the image from there. Just be sure your PC can handle the punishing system specs as listed on its wiki ...

These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You absolu… ...

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.. Within the government, Mr ...

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation ...

Japan’s digital minister, who’s vowed to rid the bureaucracy of outdated tools from the hanko stamp to the fax machine, has now declared “war” on a technology many haven’t seen for ...