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 ...

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.

Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, ... the 3.5" floppy disk has a standard data capacity of 1.44MB, ... They're not exactly designed to be a long-term storage solution, ...

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.

Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. ... Even finding a floppy disk drive of this size is a difficult task, ...

Way back in ancient times, i.e. the '70s and '80s, the floppy disk was a major player in the world of digital storage. And you might be surprised to learn just how prominent the format still is in ...

It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And it's unlikely to change. Here's why.

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage flight. Here's why.