Hard drives made from a novel molecule developed by researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) and the ...

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

A4A chief Nick Calio mentioned that the usage of floppy disks blows his mind. Tom Perksy, who runs a floppy disk business, revealed that airlines are the biggest customers for the aging storage ...

The current ATCS floppy disk system has been in use since 1998 and utilizes a mix of automatic mode functioning when the trains are running in the subway and manual operations when they are moving ...

New storage systems, coupled with a need to store more than the 1.44 megabytes of data held by a standard floppy, have led to its demise. Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy ...

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.

Pro The humble SD card turns 25 as memory capacity increases one million times and speeds improve by a factor of 300. Pro ‘Mission: ... when floppy disks were the height of storage.

Another notable instance was the US Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS), which used 8-inch floppy disks until 2019 when it transitioned to solid-state storage solutions.

If you remember a time when using floppy disks didn't seem weird, you're probably at least 30 years old. Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were ...

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.