If you’ve ever clicked the little square “Save” button on your computer, you’ve used a relic of the past without even ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

Today, the 3.5-inch floppy disk is out of production, but you might have a few in your possession. Can you still use them on modern PCs? Surprisingly, yes! Windows 11 can handle them without too ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

A recent Linux kernel is rarely if ever compiled for something as small as a floppy disk, so getting one to boot from such ancient media appeared to be a challenge. It was possible though with the ...

Why spend money upgrading technology that's "basically fine"? Although floppy disk music "peaked" in the 2010s, it's "still going strong" in the 2020s, said The Verge. In the 2020 category ...

A House Transportation Committee hearing focused on recent aviation accidents and aging FAA tech, which the GAO has called ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...

A handful of games and applications were offered in this "tape wafer" format, and several thousand drives were sold before the floppy disk made them obsolete. See TRS-80 and how to spoof your ...

MainFrames launches today. Play as a floppy disk and traverse a computer screen in this creative indie 2D platformer.

While inspecting the Saviour Schnapps in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, players discovered there is an icon of floppy disk on the potion bottle. It can be hard to see when crafting the Saviour ...