If you're like most people, you probably haven't thought about the humble floppy disk in decades. But they're not totally ...

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 ...

But these floppy drives didn’t have a “controller” built in, they just give out signal data as the disk is spinning, including an index pulse to indicate the “start point” of the rotation.

Tom Persky’s company, floppydisk.com, sells about 250,000 of the 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch square plastic storage cards each year.It has an inventory of about 1 million disks, many of which Persky ...

Floppy disk business still booming for one company serving the embroidery, airline industries relying on 90s-era tech. Floppydisk.com, a California-based online disk recycling service, ...

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.

The experiment was conducted by tuition service Explore Learning at one of its learning centres in London. Its experts presented 10-year-olds with four devices – a floppy disk, a cassette, an ...