Disc drives don't even exist as part of the internal hardware on most computers and laptops nowadays. In fact, by the ...

A man has shared the contents of a time capsule he and his brother put together in the year 2000 - and it's full of ...

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.

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.

Rather than use an optical process for storage, this drive used magnetic tape to store its data. To this day, HDDs as well as the seemingly dead floppy disk use magnets to store data.

The IT girls and guys of the Class of ’25 will finally be able to hack their HSC studies in an education department drive to put the byte on outdated courses that still refer to ’80s floppy ...

Japan has finally scrapped every regulation requiring the use of floppy disks for administrative purposes, catching up with the times 13 years after the country’s producers manufactured their ...

Japan scrapped every regulation requiring the use of floppy disks for administrative purposes this week, catching up with the times 13 years after the country’s producers manufactured their last ...

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.

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

It’s easy to see why floppy disk requirements became emblematic of this struggle: for a start, it’s a challenge just laying your hand on one in 2024.