Every now and again I hear someone complain that netbooks typically don’t come with DVD drives. But I’ve never heard anyone complain that they can’t take floppy disks. While we haven’t quite moved to ...

Tom Persky, owner of FloppyDisk.com and disk trader, shows off a 3.5-inch computer disk at his warehouse in Lake Forest. REUTERS/Alan Devall It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk ...

even though it's been decades since we relied on the 3.5-inch disks "People who go in the back of their warehouse and might find a pallet or two of the floppy disks and they're about to take them to ...

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, which pushed the first hard drive to C:. Floppy disks were dominant back ...

PC World is to stop selling floppy disks once current stock has run out. The computing retailer claims the amount of data (1.44MB) a floppy disk holds is no longer adequate for most day-to-day ...

The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year. Sony, one of a ...

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...

Thanks to British Airways axing its entire 747 fleet, Pen Test Partners got a rare look at one of their cockpits, according to The Register. The cybersecurity firm found that the plane’s navigation ...

For the most part, the floppy disk is a relic from a bygone era in computing—they've long been replaced by optical media, USB flash drives, and cloud storage. Forgotten by many though they may be, ...