Using a Greaseweazle—a versatile open-source tool for floppy disk diagnostics—he tests the drive’s components and explores whether the fault lies with the read/write head or electronic systems.

Japan Embraces Digital Transformation, with Bureaucracy Shifting Away from Floppy Disks for Official Documents Japan is currently experiencing a transformation in its bureaucratic procedures.

Here's what a floppy disk looks like, for anyone under a certain age: A file photo shows a woman holding a new Fujifilm 200MB capacity 3.5" floppy disk and drive at the company's office in Tokyo ...

Chuck's last dance Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long Employee TikTok demos a robot show upgrade from floppy and DVD—possibly for the last time.

Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. 'We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,' Kono told Reuters news agency earlier today.

If you're old enough to know what a floppy disk is, you're old enough to know how bonkers this is: San Francisco's Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) runs on data that is stored on floppy disks.

San Francisco transit officials approved a $212 million overhaul of its train control system which until now has run on data stored by floppy disks.

Technology Japan’s government is (finally) done with floppy disks Over a thousand pieces of legislation needed to be amended. Tom Hawking Jul 3, 2024 3:26 PM EDT ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still using old floppy disks to run its trains. Moreover, it could take as much as 10 years to upgrade the current 26-year-old system.

This long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival ...

A file photo shows a woman holding a new Fujifilm 200MB capacity 3.5″ floppy disk and drive at the company’s office in Tokyo, January 28, 2000. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty) ...

Here's what a floppy disk looks like, for anyone under a certain age: A file photo shows a woman holding a new Fujifilm 200MB capacity 3.5 ...