My business, which used to be 90% CD and DVD duplication, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. It’s shocking to me. — Tom Persky In the course of writing a book all about yours-truly’s ...

Buying a 3.5-inch floppy drive today Windows 11 computers don’t come with floppy drives, so if you want to use floppy disks on a modern PC, you’ll need to buy a floppy drive. Fortunately, you ...

Now, floppy users are "slowly dying out", and the finite number of disks in the world is "gradually dwindling". But various "legacy industrial and government systems" around the world still use ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

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 ...

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 ...

America’s air traffic control systems are outdated, understaffed, and underfunded, risking more deadly plane accidents in the ...

From Blackberries to floppy disks and MP3 players, Sky News looks at software and hardware that were once ubiquitous but are ...

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

The floppy disk is seemingly the universal sign of saving even as many gamers today have never used one or seen one in the wild, as one Redditor points out.