Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite relevant. Here's why.

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...

Raise your hand if you were still using floppies in 2002. ... ‘Floppy Disk’: An Elegant Name for An Elegant Medium Amalgam of original IBM floppy patents #US3668658 and #US3678481.

Floppy disk music arguably peaked in the 2010s, but in the 2020s, it’s still going strong; Discogs.com shows a healthy 500-plus floppy releases in the 2020 category, which is more than the ...

Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, ... On the other hand, for a lot of people, those little plastic and metal squares open a door.

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 ...

Floppy Disks Are Still Used for 1,900 Government Procedures In Japan. ... has now declared “war” on a technology many haven’t seen for decades — the floppy disk. The hand-sized, ...

When Taylor Smith talks about the future of her floppy disk paintings, she points to the boxes stored at her northeast-side studio. Together, they hold more than 50,000 of the square-shaped ...

Five years ago, he paid $18,000 for a second-hand machine, ... “I personally think that the floppy disk should die,” says Florian Cramer, a writer and filmmaker who, ...

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 ...