In brief: It's 2025, and the FAA has decided it's time to stop using floppy disks and Windows 95 for air traffic control. The head of the agency, Chris Rocheleau, wants to replace the archaic ...

In an era of cloud storage, AI copilots, and real-time GPS updates on your phone, it sounds absurd that some commercial airplanes still rely on floppy disks—yes, those 3.5-inch plastic squares ...

In Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies, a lot of secrets are packed within the Shattered Veil map. One of the most intriguing, tied-to-retro-tech secrets is the Floppy Disk.The piece that seems to ...

New Order's original Blue Monday 12" - it's not a floppy disk after all. Picture: Alamy Such shenanigans came at a price: the different colours, plus the fancy holes pressed into the single sleeve ...

These stores typically have used 3.5-inch floppy disks for sale, and you can expect to pay around $0.25 per disk. No more than $0.50 each, else you’re being ripped off. Fredy Jacob / Unsplash ...

Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine in the UK, I used to hand my ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Portable storage has improved in leaps and bounds since the days of the humble floppy disk.File sizes have grown immensely over the years ...

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 ...

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.

Japan won its ‘war’ on floppy disks, but its love of archaic tech lingers. Japan has long been known for innovation, but experts say the nation’s lasting embrace of outdated hardware may ...

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.

Floppy Disk was first launched in 1971. However, commercial floppy disks were first used in 1972. Generally in the size of 8-inch, 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy disks have been used for storing ...