You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer being ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

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 ...

A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppies. Employee TikTok demos a robot show ...

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 ...

A little worse-for-wear, the unit had a broken power supply and a missing floppy disk drive. However, rather than simply installing a Raspberry Pi to emulate the original operating system, Noki built ...

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 ...

In March 2025, Green Day will return to Australia on their Saviors tour, which celebrates the band’s new album of the same ...

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 ...

The 15 songs from 'Dookie' are coming to limited, intentionally-inconvenient, low-quality formats for the album's 30th anniversary.

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 Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...

FLOPPY DISK The floppy disk ... Fax machines work by allowing users to send an exact copy (a 'facsimile') of a page of text or images to the recipient, using a telephone line to do so.