Buying a 3.5-inch floppy drive today Windows 11 computers don’t come with floppy drives, so if you want to use floppy disks on a modern PC, you’ll need to buy a floppy drive. Fortunately, you ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

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

Starting with a disk caddy on linear rails, [Smith] has a track for the floppy to follow. First it goes through a set of pads with cleaning solution on them, and is then dried off with heating ...

MainFrames launches today. Play as a floppy disk and traverse a computer screen in this creative indie 2D platformer.

America’s air traffic control systems are outdated, understaffed, and underfunded, risking more deadly plane accidents in the ...