At the time, he shared that he had half a million floppy disks in 3.5-inch, 5.25-inch, and 8-inch sizes in stock. However, he was also receiving up to 1,000 pre-owned and new disks a day from ...

There’s a joke that circulates online every few years. It’s a picture of a floppy disk, accompanied by the claim that a kid thought it was a real-life version of the “save” icon. Every ...

Tom Persky, who runs floppydisk.com – the only remaining floppy seller – supposedly has about half a million disks in stock. The disks are also "pretty expensive" to buy, said Thomas Walskaar ...

Persky sells about 1,000 disks a day—mostly 3.5-inch ones, many brand new—from a stock of hundreds of thousands in a California warehouse. He says that 20 or 25 years ago, he could buy a ...

He used the internal disk portion as an infrared filter to obtain some striking photos. In all honestly, the results were not as nice as what you get from a very expensive professional filter.

In his low-tech data recovery operation (old computers), Tom Persky is witnessing the first round of personal digital data decay. Here’s why the next rounds will be worse. Tom Persky’s company ...

Coonrod inserts a 3.5-inch floppy disk—which can hold 1.44 MB of data—that reads "Chuck E. Cheese Evergreen Show 2023" on a printed label. As the computer comes to life, ...