Many have sought the holy grail of making commercial media both readable and copy-proof, especially once everyone began to copy those floppies. One of these attempts to make floppies copy-proof was… ...

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… ...

To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.

An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still used in the medical and airline industries.

Eventually, the cat-and-mouse game between copy protection and anti-copy protection was deemed unprofitable, and floppy disk-based copy protection was abandoned entirely by some publishers.

Mr. Persky now works to sell empty floppy disks, but at the time he founded the company his job was to copy floppy disks. In the 1980s and 1990s, copying floppy disks was 'like printing money ...

Copy That Floppy The Japanese government still requires some of its agencies to save data on CDs and even floppy disks, Japanese English-language newspaper Nikkei Asia reports.

Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats. Around 1,900 government procedures still require businesses to use the storage ...

This long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival ...

In honour of the floppy disk, MailOnline reveals the retro tech that older generations still have trouble saying goodbye to - while baffling the kids of today.