Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics.

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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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