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.

No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

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 ...

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk ... but with significantly greater storage capacity. Unlike traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs contain no moving ...

This was a poor solution to the paltry storage capacity of floppies in the early 1980s, because the disk's rotation was alternated. See floppy disk. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

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 ...