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Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite relevant. Here's why.
When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...
New storage systems, coupled with a need to store more than the 1.44 megabytes of data held by a standard floppy, have led to its demise. Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy ...
Some industries still use floppy disks. This is one of the only places to buy them An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still ...
When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.
Floppy disks still fly—literally. Here’s why some airplanes in 2025 still rely on 1990s tech for navigation updates.
Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data.
The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...