When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

Seven floppy disks labelled top secret which may contain information relevant to the separate loyalist murders of Belfast ...

Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine in the UK, I used to hand my ...

For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented, but there remains a corps of experimenters for whom the classic removable storage format still holds some fascination. The interface ...

When Zip disks came out in 1995 with 100MB cartridges, their huge storage compared to floppy disks made them very popular. However, like all removable media of that era, the Zip was eclipsed by ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

As technology marches on at an unprecedented pace, many devices and standards have fallen by the wayside, replaced by faster, sleeker, and more efficient alternatives. Not all outdated ...