Floppy disks are a rare sight these days, having been superseded by much more efficient data storage media. Still, they enjoyed a long life, becoming commercially available in 1971 and still being ...

Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite relevant. Here's why.

The eternal floppy disk you could still be using every day is that floppy disk icon sitting somewhere in upper left hand corner of your Microsoft Word, Excel, or other desktop application.

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...

Raise your hand if you were still using floppies in 2002. ... ‘Floppy Disk’: An Elegant Name for An Elegant Medium Amalgam of original IBM floppy patents #US3668658 and #US3678481.

Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine in the UK, I used to hand my ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer… ...

Floppy disk music arguably peaked in the 2010s, but in the 2020s, it’s still going strong; Discogs.com shows a healthy 500-plus floppy releases in the 2020 category, which is more than the ...

Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, ... On the other hand, for a lot of people, those little plastic and metal squares open a door.

Floppy Disks Are Still Used for 1,900 Government Procedures In Japan. ... has now declared “war” on a technology many haven’t seen for decades — the floppy disk. The hand-sized, ...

Five years ago, he paid $18,000 for a second-hand machine, ... “I personally think that the floppy disk should die,” says Florian Cramer, a writer and filmmaker who, ...