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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...

It’s an impressive hack that shows that preservation-grade backups of floppy disks can be achieved without spending big money or using specialist hardware. We’ve seen other projects in this ...

We’re fascinated by the recent trend of storing audio on floppy disks, but despite the hipster vibe, we doubt the idea will catch on. It’s not the first floppy-based player we’ve seen ...

Floppy disks were first developed in the early 1970s as 8-inch (approximately 200 mm) disks, with smaller 5.25-inch (approximately 130 mm) disks appearing in 1976. Floppy disks then became most ...

60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to ...

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

ACxDC has announced that they are going to release an EP on floppy disks. The release will be called The Oracle of Death EP and will be out via frontman Sergio Amalfitano's own label, Fuck Life ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

Tom Persky, the founder of floppydisk.com — which sells and recycles floppy disks — said that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers in the new book "Floppy Disk Fever ...

They were, in a word, cumbersome. Also: BASIC turns 60: Why simplicity was this programming language's blessing and its curse Floppy disks predated me getting my feet wet in computing. In the late ...