Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, ... With a minute of audio clocking in at around 1MB, you might only fit a single track on a standard floppy disk ...

I've never once touched a floppy disk with my bare hands. Yet, I somehow feel quite a bit of nostalgia for the old bit of ...

Jokes about the antiquated technology that runs Muni's subway have long made the rounds among riders. But the floppy disk software has passed its expiration date.

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 ...

Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

It’s easy to see why floppy disk requirements became emblematic of this struggle: for a start, it’s a challenge just laying your hand on one in 2024.

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation ...

The floppy disk was widely used in 3.5 and 5 1/4 inch formats ... And who knows whether this would not also exceed the storage space of an 8-inch floppy disk, which is between 180 KB and 1 MB.

Japan isn’t the only nation that has struggled to phase out the outdated technology — the U.S. Defense Department only announced in 2019 that it has ended the use of floppy disks, which were ...

Floppy disk business still booming for one company serving the embroidery, airline industries relying on 90s-era tech. Floppydisk.com, a California-based online disk recycling service, ...

S.F. Muni Will Spend $212M to Move Train Control Off Disk The replacement will move the Muni Metro off 1998 technology that runs on floppy disks. October 21, 2024 • ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...