Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

Tom Persky, founder of floppydisk.com, sells and recycles the archaic storage devices. He says in a new book that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers. "Probably half of the air fleet ...

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 ...

As technology marches on at an unprecedented pace, many devices and standards have fallen by the wayside, replaced by faster, sleeker, and more efficient alternatives. Not all outdated technologies ...

Good news for Japan, bad news for my nostalgic heart. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Japan has now officially "won the war on ...

The sound of a crunching floppy disk drive may well be the soundtrack to a large part of my misspent youth. Please insert disk four of five. Oh you've lost it? No games for you, little Andy. No games ...

Tom Persky, owner of FloppyDisk.com and disk trader, shows off a 3.5-inch computer disk at his warehouse in Lake Forest. REUTERS/Alan Devall It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk ...

I have 3 bootable floppies I want to transfer to a file. All three are the same Spinrite program, but I don't have time to play with them at the moment. I have a portable floppy drive I borrowed, and ...