About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy ...

Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless, many older applications or drivers may ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city’s Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt the train control system it currently uses, which has ...

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. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

Japan may well be a leader in innovation and technology, but this week a prominent government figure revealed how it sometimes likes to hold on to old technologies, too. Days after taking up his role ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced ...