Though the floppy disk was invented more than 50 years ago, it turns out airplanes continue to regularly use this archaic ...

Scientists have found a way to store all of humanity's most important data inside a piece of glass — and it could last longer than civilisation itself. View on euronews ...

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.

Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but storage developed by Microsoft could last for millennia ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its plastic ...

Despite being obsolete in modern computing, the 3.5-inch floppy disk lives on globally as the universal "Save" icon in almost ...

What better way to give new life to your old floppy disks than by turning them into planters? These are strictly decorative, so you’ll want to keep your plant in the plastic container it came in. If ...

I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

Dell Computer is offering its own alternative to the floppy disk. The company on Tuesday began offering the USB Memory Key, a small, removable storage device. Dell will offer a 16MB version of the USB ...

No matter what the size—eight-inch, 5 1/4-inch, 3 1/2-inch—floppy disks are the most iconic symbols of old-school computing. But how do they actually work? The 8-Bit Guy spends 15 minutes breaking ...

Here’s a geeky notebook, ideal for taking geeky notes, the Floppy Disk Notebook which is made using some old school floppy disks. If you’re as old as me, then you may remember these giant floppy disks ...