If you’ve ever clicked the little square “Save” button on your computer, you’ve used a relic of the past without even ...

The IBM 350, the world's first hard disk, was released in 1956. As the RAMAC computer's memory, it had space for 3.75 ...

Makers of hard disk drives, under growing pressure from faster rivals, hope a breakthrough will keep it the dominant data-storage medium.

Seagate’s innovation, heat-assisted magnetic recording ... and the storage device has endured while other media such as punch cards, floppy disks and CD-ROMs fell into obscurity.

Floppy disks were a form of portable storage media primarily used from the 1970s to mid-1990s. They were thin circular disks that were coated with magnetic ... about a device like this in ...

Were these devices real? I checked with a salesman ... Inside the drive is the floppy disk, which is essentially magnetic recording tape pressed into the shape of a small record and then enclosed ...

Shifting to flash storage could reduce power consumption by as much as 90 percent. This is why the shift away from magnetic storage ... just like we do with floppy disks now.

Floppy disk, brick cell phone, typewriter… did you miss me? Check out the latest versions of these and other older technologies ...

Tiny magnetic "flowers" engineered by physicist Anna Palau are redefining how we manipulate magnetic fields. These ...