Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we still use ... disk dominated the disk storage medium for more than a decade, and hundreds of millions of disks were ...

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010 ... rely on a dwindling stack of new old stock, or the used market. With the purported unreliability of this ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy ... After it was upgraded to 1.2MB in 1984, 360KB diskettes were still used to distribute software, because 1.2MB drives ...

Unlike the later 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy disks, the 8-inch disks had a flexible and truly "floppy" feel. They were made from a thin piece of magnetized material encased in a protective ...

If you’ve ever clicked the little square “Save” button on your computer, you’ve used a relic of the past without even ...

He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors have the same spacing as SD cards. Add in a hacked USB card reader, some careful cutting and assembly, and [gilmour509] has a very ...

A House Transportation Committee hearing focused on recent aviation accidents and aging FAA tech, which the GAO has called ...

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has pushed for a massive upgrade of the Federal Aviation Administration, claiming their computer system still uses 'floppy discs.' As the nation is reeling from ...