Back in the early years of the personal computer, “FloppyData” may not have been recognizable by itself. But looking back on ...

A laser Doppler vibrometer is used to measure the head/disk interface dynamics in computer disk drives. The stability of the head under steady operating conditions is compared between a 5¼-inch and ...

It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And it's unlikely to change. Here's why.

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

San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from 5.25-inch floppy disks, with upgrades not expected until 2030 due to budget constraints.

In Japan, there have long been laws and regulations that specify using floppy disks for submitting application data in some ...

Now that Apple sells over hundreds of millions of iPhones a year, it's easy to forget that it all began with two college ...

I was the first pharmacy in Schuylkill County to have a computer because I got tired of handwriting all of the forms,” Lee Shafer said at the time. “You bought a computer that was gigantic, but it ...

Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

Microsoft's new 13-inch Surface Laptop is an odd one. It's inarguably a step down in every respect from last year's 13.8-inch Surface Laptop. But it's also too good (and too expensive) to be ...