Holding on to a cache of old floppies because nostalgia? Us too, and this might be the coolest possible use for ’em. While it’s fun to imagine that he wrote a compression algorithm to fit a lossless ...

Cool find! The combination of DVD and floppy disks initially seems bizarre, but if the system was introduced in 1998 it kind of makes sense. DVD had been out for about 2 years at that point, but there ...

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.

3M, a chemical company known for products such as adhesives and Post-it notes, also once produced floppy disks. The technology media IEEE Spectrum explains the history of 3M floppy disks. The first ...

This all shouldn’t come as a shock. Floppy disks have been around since the mid-1970s, when IBM had to make the tricky decision whether they should be used as a storage medium, an angular frisbee, or ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...

The history respecters at the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant/entertainment chain still use floppy disks to control their animatronic rodent-bots — and they wouldn’t have it any other way, apparently. As ...

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 ...

The Japanese government is just starting to phase out the floppy disks, the Nikkei reported. Sony, the last major floppy-disk maker, stopped production of the storage media a decade ago. The Japanese ...