With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010 ... rely on a dwindling stack of new old stock, or the used market. With the purported unreliability of this ...

My business, which used to be 90% CD and DVD duplication, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. It’s shocking to me. — Tom Persky In the course of writing a book all about yours-truly’s ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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

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When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

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

You’d be forgiven for thinking that floppy disks had long gone the way of the dodo, but actually their use is more common than you might imagine - but perhaps not for much longer. Back in ...

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 ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late ... later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats. Around 1,900 government ...