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.

These stores typically have used 3.5-inch floppy disks for sale, and you can expect to pay around $0.25 per disk. No more than $0.50 each, else you’re being ripped off. Fredy Jacob / Unsplash ...

The California State Transportation Agency has awarded $130 million to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which will fund The City’s modernization of its floppy-disk-based train ...

GERMANY (WKRC) - Although you probably haven't used (or even seen) a floppy disk in a while, some systems still rely on the outdated technology to this day. They can't just remove the readers ...

Floppy disks were used in the Japanese government system, and now it is officially getting off the shelf. Japan made a law in 2022 to discontinue floppy and CD-ROM in the government systems, but ...

In honour of the floppy disk, MailOnline reveals the retro tech that older generations still have trouble saying goodbye to - while baffling the kids of today.

In 2009, Sony had a 70% share of the Japanese domestic floppy disk market, which amounted to about 12 million disks in total — with a combined capacity of just 17 terabytes.

Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, marking the end of an era and a significant milestone in the country's efforts to modernise its bureaucracy ...

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...

Until 2019, the computer system that controlled the USA’s nuclear arsenal famously relied on eight-inch floppy disks, a format you probably have to be in your fifties to have ever laid eyes on.

floppy disk Japan officially stops using floppy disks The Japanese government has stopped the use of floppy disks in all official capacities, in an ongoing effort to digitise its bureaucracy system.

The "floppy" emerged in around 1970 – so named because you could bend the original disks without breaking them. For about three decades, they were the main way people stored and backed up ...