I deas man David Delahunty is behind a new flash storage device which looks like a classic MacOS folder icon dragged into the ...

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

TOKYO (TR) – In the ’80s and ’90s, floppy disks were the norm for storing data. However, they quickly disappeared from homes and offices with the emergence of larger capacity and faster recording ...

A controller can’t say hold (to the pilot) for two minutes and we‘ll work you in.” Newark Airport is already stressed, serving 28% more than what its anticipated capacity is, Anderson said.

News Newark airport uses floppy discs for air traffic control and more terrifying facts about FAA’s crumbling system Updated: May. 11, 2025, 3:11 p.m. | Published: May. 11, 2025, 7:00 a.m.

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage flight. Here's why.

A simple floppy disk in the then common 5.25 inch format with the inscription "AIDS Information – Introductory Diskette 2.0" marked the beginning of a new business model 35 years ago that now ...

But gaming on the Apple II quickly caught on and became a huge market. Apple II used two disk image formats for 5.25-inch floppy disks: DOS 3.3 and ProDOS.

In 1998, an estimated 2 billion floppy disks were sold, according to the Recording Media Industries Association of Japan. Since then global demand has fallen by around two-thirds to an estimated 700 ...

Since the earliest PCs, which used dual floppy drives and disks almost twice as big as today’s, personal computers have routinely shipped with at least one internal floppy drive. But, in recent years, ...

Initially, these IBM Diskette 1 floppies could store up to 242,944 bytes, and later models increased capacity to 1.2MB. However, Japan has taken the spotlight with its high-profile program to ...

Technologically, the idea of using of floppy disks in certain processes until very recently is quite astounding, if only because of their very limited storage capacity and often uncertain reliability.