The warehouse also holds 8-inch floppy disks — an even older storage medium — including one labeled as containing the 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon US presidential debate.

Yet, amazingly, these magnetic storage devices continue to hold on in certain specialized sectors. Some legacy industrial systems, for example, still rely on floppy disks for software updates and ...

Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or magnetic storage, their expertise in making small grains of material stick in an organized fashion on a wide range of materials came in handy.

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010, those who are still using this type of storage medium for production and/or retrocomputing purposes have to inc… ...

The magnetic disk storage device "RAMAC"Is a huge device with 50 aluminum disks 24 inches in diameter and 0.1 inch thick with a storage capacity of 5 million characters (5 MB), a magnetic disk ...

Way back in ancient times, i.e. the '70s and '80s, the floppy disk was a major player in the world of digital storage. And you might be surprised to learn just how prominent the format still is in ...

Before the floppy disk arrived, computer users had severely limited options for removable storage peripherals. Paper tape found use in loading code but was far from efficient. Magnetic-tape ...

Japan began moving away from the 20th-century storage devices, magnetic disks encased in plastic, just two years ago, when Taro Kono, the country’s digital minister, declared a “war on floppy ...

Yet, amazingly, these magnetic storage devices continue to hold on in certain specialized sectors. Some legacy industrial systems, for example, still rely on floppy disks for software updates and ...