If you're like most people, you probably haven't thought about the humble floppy disk in decades. But they're not totally ...

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.

Troubleshooting 3.5-inch floppy disks It’s actually pretty amazing that I can pop a disk from the 1980s into a Windows 11 PC sold this year and reasonably expect to read its data. Yet while it ...

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. ... In 1981, Sony introduced the 3.5-inch floppy disk.

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, ...

As for the 3.5-inch floppy, he can’t say how many more disks are out there. “There’s a worldwide inventory of disks that were manufactured 10 or 20 or 30 years ago,” Persky says. “That ...

The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn ...

Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk (LS-120 and LS-240) which reached capacities of 120 and 240 MB, respectively, as well as the rare Sony HiFD released ...

As for the 3.5-inch floppy, he can’t say how many more disks are out there. “There’s a worldwide inventory of disks that were manufactured 10 or 20 or 30 years ago,” Persky says. “That ...