Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we ...

The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch floppy disk labeled "AIDS Information – Introductory Diskette 2.0 ...

A multimillion-dollar state grant will eventually bring the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s floppy-disk-based subway train-control system into the 21st century. The SFMTA will ...

Man dismantling a laptop in his workshop Medium shot of a man sitting at ... Obsolete scanners, keyboards, mouses, printers, speakers, headphones and floppy disks. Separated in a corner of the room ...

The warrants reveal that multiple items were seized, including a car, journals, cameras, film, a black trash bag ... a computer, laptop, tablet, a flash drive containing photos, external hard drive, ...

Gen Z may not realize it, but there was once a time when personal computer users relied heavily on floppy disk storage for everything from data retention to gaming. The world has moved on to solid ...

However, the outdated hardware is unlikely to disappear completely. Created in the 1960s, the floppy disk emerged as a solution for information sharing in a pre-internet era, when computers ...

Two years ago, Japan’s Digital Minister Taro Kono turned heads when he declared war on an almost obsolete piece of computer hardware: the floppy disk. In a post on social media, Kono said that ...

The floppy disk, invented in the 1970s, was once a ubiquitous part of computing. Other forms of memory like flash drives and internet cloud storage have since taken over. In the 1990s, along with ...

said it would halt floppy disk sales in 2011 due to dwindling demand. In 2009, Sony had a 70% share of the Japanese domestic floppy disk market, which amounted to about 12 million disks in total ...