They sell 50-packs of recycled 3.5-inch floppy disks for $20 each or 10-packs of brand-new 3.5-inch floppy disks for $13 each. Alternatively, you can get a 10-pack of new disks on Amazon for $19 .

No desktop computer or laptop comes today with a physical Floppy Drive, but several free tools can help you create a virtual floppy disk on Windows 10/8/7. Here are some of them that you can use ...

Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy disk drives. "The floppy disk looks increasingly quaint and simply isn't able to compete," said Bryan Magrath, commercial director of PC ...

Today, even some external USB PC 3.5-inch floppy drives will work on modern Macs. You may have trouble reading disks in this case, depending on the disks' original formats.

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.

In the early days of Windows computers, permanently installed data carriers, i.e. hard disks or SSDs, were not common. Instead, floppy discs were used as the primary storage medium, in 5.25-inch ...

With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives.

The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking contractors to modernize its decades-old computer systems within four years.

Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk (LS-120 and LS-240) which reached capacities of 120 and 240 MB, respectively, as well as the rare Sony HiFD released ...

The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s ...