A portrait of Indianapolis humor icon David Letterman made of floppy disks will be displayed in downtown InterContinental ...

The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to ...

Floppy disks are no longer good for government work in Japan, among the last places where the ancient storage devices remain in wide use. But these rules have now finally been scrapped ...

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 ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

Turning to storage devices, he asked: "Where does one even buy a floppy disk these days?" This is not the first time Japan has hit the headlines for its old-fashioned habits - which remain a ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

Its 79K of storage may seem like nothing to ... Yep, they're driven by floppy disks. Also: The best NAS devices of 2024 And, of course, some people, such as musician Espen Kraft, still use floppy ...

The pandemic pushed 83 of organizations to embrace remote work fundamentally changing how we handle digital files Gone are the days of rushing to the office because you forgot a crucial document on yo ...

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...

For those younger than 40, a floppy disk was the transportable storage medium that was in vogue from the 1970s till the late 90s. If that still isn't ringing any bells, an image of it is used as ...

However, by 1998, most new tech devices had moved away from floppy disks, so it's unclear why the SFMTA decided to use this system. In any case, the story says that this technology was designed to ...