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.

Kodak`s first floppy-disc based gear, coming in the fall, includes the SV7400 tabletop still video recorder ($1,900) and a second tabletop recorder- player with a 30-disc tray ($3,900).

(1) A front panel on a Blu-ray/DVD or CD/DVD drive that opens to allow the disc tray to slide out. (2) A lever that locks a disk into the drive. With earlier 5.25" floppy drives, the lever had to ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

No, a better bet is simply to spend a few bucks. I did a little shopping on Ebay and found plenty of 3.5-inch external floppy disk drives, most of them selling in the $10-15 range.

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.. Within the government, Mr ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...