Back in the early years of the personal computer, “FloppyData” may not have been recognizable by itself. But looking back on ...

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.

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...

Many school districts say goodbye to floppy disks and replace them with flash memory drives, CDs, CD-RWs and DVDs. Others put LANs, WANs and file servers in place for their data-distribution needs.

Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, ... cloud storage is ubiquitous. The most widely used type of floppy, with a maximum capacity of less than three megabytes, ...

Floppy disks are no longer good for government work in Japan, among the last places where the ancient storage devices remain in wide use. But these rules have now finally been scrapped, said ...

In Japan, there have long been laws and regulations that specify using floppy disks for submitting application data in some ...

They may have barely enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, but some people still love using this technology from the 1980s.

The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them? When an idea for a new ...