Tokyo — With its azure ocean views and terraced rice paddies, the city of Hamada, population 50,000, is far from Japan’s major urban centers of Tokyo and Osaka. But Hamada is no digital slouch ...

Japan's Fujifilm unveils 200MB capacity 3.5" floppy disk HiFD and its HDR200PRDSA drive, developed by Fujifilm and Sony, at the company's office in Tokyo 28 January 2000.

"The 3.5" 1.44MB HD floppy may finally be going gentle into the good night. Sony, one of just a few companies that still produce the archaic computer storage media, has announced plans to end ...

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.

In honour of the floppy disk, MailOnline reveals the retro tech that older generations still have trouble saying goodbye to - while baffling the kids of today.

Tokyo — With its azure ocean views and terraced rice paddies, the city of Hamada, population 50,000, is far from Japan's major urban centers of Tokyo and Osaka. But Hamada is no digital slouch ...

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 ...