Iconic logos like Apple's bitten apple and Amazon's A-to-Z arrow carry deep meanings, reflecting a company's heritage and ...

US air traffic control systems are to get an upgrade, finally ending the use of 30-year-old operating system Windows 95, and dispensing with floppy disks and paper strips in the process.

In a world full of cybersecurity threats, floppy disks offer something modern systems struggle to guarantee—air-gapped safety. No connection means no entry point for cyberattacks.

The following is a getting started guide contributed by Yann Serra Greaseweazle is a hardware and software solution that lets you archive or regenerate old floppy disks. Reading them is useful for ...

These stores typically have used 3.5-inch floppy disks for sale, and you can expect to pay around $0.25 per disk. No more than $0.50 each, else you’re being ripped off.

Since version 2.1 using a USB floppy disk drive via an USB hub is supported. Some MSX computers can't provide enough power for floppy disk drives to be used via direct connection to the USB port of ...

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 ...

Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Disks One of the world’s most technologically advanced nations has held on to some of the most outmoded devices. Listen to this article · 4:06 min Learn more ...

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono ...

These new-fangled disks first held from 90 to 110KB. Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size.