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.

To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.

Some industries still use floppy disks. This is one of the only places to buy them An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.

New storage systems, coupled with a need to store more than the 1.44 megabytes of data held by a standard floppy, have led to its demise. Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy ...

Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy ...

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

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 ...

Coonrod inserts a 3.5-inch floppy disk—which can hold 1.44 MB of data—that reads "Chuck E. Cheese Evergreen Show 2023" on a printed label. As the computer comes to life, ...

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.. Within the government, Mr ...