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

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...

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.

Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, ... cloud storage is ubiquitous. The most widely used type of floppy, with a maximum capacity of less than three megabytes, ...

Many school districts say goodbye to floppy disks and replace them with flash memory drives, CDs, CD-RWs and DVDs. Others put LANs, WANs and file servers in place for their data-distribution needs.

In Japan, there have long been laws and regulations that specify using floppy disks for submitting application data in some ...

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.

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

The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them? When an idea for a new ...