It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And ...

Before I started taking journalism classes during my early days in the Air Force, I still remember the comments our first sergeant shared with myself and the others who prepared to tackle the huge ...

In an era of cloud storage, AI copilots, and real-time GPS updates on your phone, it sounds absurd that some commercial airplanes still rely on floppy disks—yes, those 3.5-inch plastic squares ...

In Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies, a lot of secrets are packed within the Shattered Veil map. One of the most intriguing, tied-to-retro-tech secrets is the Floppy Disk.The piece that seems to ...

Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine in the UK, I used to hand my ...

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation ...

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Sony introduced the ubiquitous 3.5-inch floppy disk in 1981 and was their last manufacturer until they ended sales in 2011, as floppy disks were replaced by more efficient storage technology.

Japan began moving away from the 1900s storage devices, magnetic disks encased in plastic, just two years ago, when Taro Kono, the country’s digital minister, declared a “war on floppy disks”.

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.. Within the government, Mr ...