Every now and again I hear someone complain that netbooks typically don’t come with DVD drives. But I’ve never heard anyone complain that they can’t take floppy disks. While we haven’t quite moved to ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

It may look like a 3D-printed save icon, but 3.5-inch disks were the standard computer media format back in the late 1900s. USB flash drives have long since replaced them, but that didn't stop Oleg ...

Copy your floppies before bit rot gets them.

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. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and lightweight enough to run off a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk, as demonstrated ...

The iMac was the first mass-produced computer to ditch the 3.5-inch floppy disk, and the rest of the industry followed soon after — but that doesn't mean there isn't a market for them. While the ...

Recently retired Boeing 747s still use 3.5-inch floppy disks to load updated navigational databases. Cramming large new tech into old tech is bad, but floppy disks aren't inherently bad. The retired ...