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 ...

A file photo shows a woman holding a new Fujifilm 200MB capacity 3.5" floppy disk and drive at the company's office in Tokyo, January 28, 2000. YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty ...

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.

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that the US air traffic control system still runs on somewhat antiquated bits of technology, including floppy disks and paper strips ...

The floppy disk, invented and made by IBM in 1967, was once the preferred format for storing files and transferring them between computers – but you'd be lucky to find one being used today.

LAKE FOREST, California—It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in the 1990s says business is still ...

Businesses in Japan must keep their floppy disk drives for one more year, before changes to the law finally kick in …. The Register reports.. Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which ...

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.

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.