It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And ...

In an era of cloud storage, AI copilots, and real-time GPS updates on your phone, it sounds absurd that some commercial airplanes still rely on floppy disks—yes, those 3.5-inch plastic squares ...

Compared to the CPC464, the CPC664's main unit has been significantly redesigned, not only to accommodate the floppy disk drive but also with a redesigned keyboard area. Touted as "ergonomic" by ...

Yup, this thing has a disc drive, something that’s become rare even in a roomy desktop chassis. In fact, it’s hiding it behind an even more archaic feature: the two plastic dummy floppy drives ...

The floppy disk was widely used in 3.5 and 5 1/4 inch formats - and was also available in 8 inch format. According to information from the blog "Augen geradeaus" , this is exactly what is required ...

In 2009, Sony had a 70% share of the Japanese domestic floppy disk market, which amounted to about 12 million disks in total — with a combined capacity of just 17 terabytes.

The floppy is a "quiet mainstay in DIY-driven media", wrote culture reporter Alexis Ong, especially in the so-called "lobit" subculture, which celebrates low-bitrate music "as a form of art and ...

Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy ...

If you're also wondering why do drive letters start with C on Windows OS, then it's because letters A & B were assigned to floppy drives. Skip to content Guides ...

Businesses in Japan must keep their floppy disk drives for one more year, before changes to the law finally kick in …. The Register reports.. Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which ...

Japan finally gives up on 1.44MB floppy disk drives, 50 years after they went on sale — but there's no sign of Microsoft removing the iconic 'Save' floppy icon from Office just yet.

The old floppy drive had a broken interface chip, Shirriff explained on his blog. He decided to decap it and took photos. The chip has an unusual substrate, consisting of a sapphire base with ...