When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics.

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...

Although you may not be using your old floppy disks to store important data anymore, you can still get some use out of them by turning them into a desk caddy. Choose the most appropriate glue for ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

How this latter came to be is the subject of an article by [Ernie Smith], focusing on floppy disk storage. Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or magnetic storage, their expertise ...