A portrait of Indianapolis humor icon David Letterman made of floppy disks will be displayed in downtown InterContinental ...

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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

Just over a year ago, the team programmed a Raspberry Pi Pico to read floppy disks. Now ... powered by a 12V adapter alongside a 5V/3A buck converter. A TPS259540 12V OVP module is included ...

[Sean]’s aim was to try and fit roughly 45 minutes of audio on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk. To pull this off ... [Sean] suspects there must be some conversion going on somewhere as browsers ...

The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to ...

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 ...

Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.

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A multimillion-dollar state grant will eventually bring the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s floppy-disk-based subway train-control system into the 21st century. The SFMTA will ...

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...