Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy disks, and hard disk drives, and after several decades ...

This first allowed 3M to make a name for itself with its Scotch magnetic (reel-to-reel) tape, followed by 3M moving into the floppy disk market by 1973.

Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite relevant. Here's why.

Much like a floppy disk, a cassette is a rectangular plastic shell that surrounds two rotating spools with tape wrapped around them.

No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive ...

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.

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.

3M, a chemical company known for products such as adhesives and Post-it notes, also once produced floppy disks. The technology media IEEE Spectrum explains the history of 3M floppy disks. The ...

Rather than use an optical process for storage, this drive used magnetic tape to store its data. To this day, HDDs as well as the seemingly dead floppy disk use magnets to store data.