That delightfully Web 1.0 site is owned by Tom Persky, who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that address ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

Compact discs (and flying discs) are round, just like the letter c. Floppy disks are all lines and edges, just like k. Have ...

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations. The deal is ...

In 2022, Japan's digital minister "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech like CDs and mini-discs, after a committee discovered nearly 2,000 areas in which businesses were still ...

The SilverStone FLP01 started out as an April Fools' joke, but now it looks like this retro-inspired beige-colored PC case is ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

Floppy disks were eventually made obsolete by compact discs, USBs and flash drives, as a smaller and more portable way to share files from computer to computer, with more storage capacity too.

Now there's word that one of the biggest municipal train systems in the US is being run in part by three 5-inch floppy disks. According to KGO-TV News, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...

Graham has created a custom archival system using parts from disk duplicators and our favorite SBC, the Raspberry Pi, to automatically process stacks of floppy disks and back them up onto a USB drive.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks. The Muni Metro’s Automatic Train Control ...