After mounting a floppy disk, a mechanical arm moves it to two cleaning pads drip-dosed with isopropyl alcohol immediately before cleaning as the disk rotates inside its enclosure.

Floppy disks aren’t storing flight movies or snack menus. They’re primarily used to update navigation databases—the internal maps and routing info inside an aircraft’s Flight Management ...

We say it resembles a car wash because of the way the floppy moves inside. There's also a lot of moving machinery involved, including a line of motors, pumps, and even heating elements.

The original 8in (20cm) and 5.25in (13cm) floppy disks were actually floppy – you could bend them slightly without harming the magnetic material inside. But the later 3.5in (8.75cm) disks were ...

Apple II used two disk image formats for 5.25-inch floppy disks: DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. Atari had a series of personal home computers starting with the Atari 400 and 800, ...

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

The original 8in (20cm) and 5.25in (13cm) floppy disks were actually floppy – you could bend them slightly without harming the magnetic material inside. But the later 3.5in (8.75cm) disks were ...