The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

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

They may have barely enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, but some people still love using this technology from the 1980s.

It might be hard to believe, but floppy disks are still in use for official purposes in a few nations. The device can hold a meager 1.44 MB storage capacity (by today’s standards). That hardly ...

It has been revealed that the German Navy is seeking to replace the 8-inch floppy disks essential to the operation of its Brandenburg-class frigates (Type 123 frigates) with an emulation system.

Floppy disks (FDs), magnetic disks that record information on personal computers, were widely used mainly from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. Programmer Jonathan Palant explains about such FD.

The earliest, 8-inch models (80KB capacity) arrived in the 1970s and were popular among enterprise users, with 5.25-inch (360 KB double sided) designs the common format for home computers at the time.

Floppy Disk: Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a California-based online disk recycling service that takes in new and used disks before sending them onto a reliable customer base - he reckons he ...

The time has come to bid farewell to one of the PC's more stalwart friends - the floppy disk. Computing superstore PC World said it will no longer sell the storage devices, affectionately known as ...

The U.S. Defense Department is still using — after several decades — 8-inch floppy disks in a computer system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation's nuclear forces, a jaw ...