PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

Old computers retain so much of their appeal after they've become obsolete., but why? These photos tell the story.

[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer and case made to look ... the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular ...

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 ...

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

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...

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 ...

(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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a ...

60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to ...