At university in the early 1980’s, I saved my Pascal programs that ran on a PDP-11 on an 8” floppy disk. Kept that disk for many years afterwards but, alas, I eventually tossed it in the bin ...

For people under a certain age, the 8 inch floppy disk is a historical curiosity. They might just have owned a PC that had a 5.25 inch disk drive, but the image conjured by the phrase “floppy ...

The smallest USB key has far greater capacity than a 1.44MB 3.5-inch disk, fits in a pocket, and works almost exactly like a disk drive. The only hitch is that a USB key cant boot a PC—yet.

Back in the early years of the personal computer, “FloppyData” may not have been recognizable by itself. But looking back on ...

The warehouse also holds 8-inch floppy disks — an even older storage medium — including one labeled as containing the 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon US presidential debate.

A report from the Government Accountability Office has revealed that operational functions for the U.S. nuclear armament are still controlled by 8-inch floppy disks, while other departments are ...

The German Navy seeks emulation-based replacements for 8-inch floppy disks in F123 frigates, commissioned in the 1990s. Saab, as general contractor, oversees upgrades to propulsion, weapon systems ...

At least one type of floppy disk, the ancient 8-inch introduced by IBM in 1971, seems on the verge of extinction. “There aren’t any left, and we sell the ones we have for $5 [each] in boxes of ...

Early Macs used a proprietary floppy disk format, and once a Mac 3.5-inch disk was create,d it couldn't be read on the IBM PC standard. This made file transfers between the two types of computers ...

At least one type of floppy disk, the ancient 8-inch introduced by IBM in 1971, seems on the verge of extinction. “There aren’t any left, and we sell the ones we have for $5 [each] in boxes of ...