Floppy disk music arguably peaked in the 2010s, but in the 2020s, it’s still going strong; Discogs.com shows a healthy 500-plus floppy releases in the 2020 category, which is more than the ...

The warehouse also holds 8-inch floppy disks — an even older storage medium — including one labeled as containing the 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon US presidential debate.

To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.

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 ...

America's air traffic control network runs on decades-old technology, and the acting FAA director wants to replace the whole system.

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

If you're always forgetting to save your work, one day you'll regret that. This Arduino-driven retro floppy disk will remind you and do it for you.

The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from ...

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 ...

The current ATCS floppy disk system has been in use since 1998 and utilizes a mix of automatic mode functioning when the trains are running in the subway and manual operations when they are moving ...

Japan won its ‘war’ on floppy disks, but its love of archaic tech lingers. Japan has long been known for innovation, but experts say the nation’s lasting embrace of outdated hardware may ...

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 ...