The death knell sounded yesterday for the floppy disk, little more than three decades after it appeared alongside the first home computers. Demand for the floppy disk has plummeted as PC owners have ...
The 3.5in floppy disk, once an icon of the computer age, is to be cleared from the shelves of PC World as demand for disks plummets. In 1998 we were using more than 2bn floppy disks a year - but new ...
More than 1,000 readers e-mailed in response to the Magazine's request to explain their attachment to the once universally popular 3.5" diskettes. Many pointed out floppies are needed to access even ...
Musician Espen Kraft stores his sound samples on floppy disks, using them to make his music for their authentic sound (Credit: Espen Kraft) The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Floppy disks -- who needs 'em? They're not practical for storing digital photos, MP3 compressed music files or any of the other accoutrements of the digital lifestyle. They don't ...
Sony has said it will stop making floppy disks, after nearly three decades of manufacture. Yet millions of them are still being bought every year. But who is actually buying them? The floppy disk is ...
After more than 50 years since the first one was made, Japan has officially killed off the iconic floppy disk. According to reports, the Japanese government has scrapped all 1,034 regulations ...
The Pentagon is not alone in still using floppy disks but unique in using them for its nuclear missile fleet The technology world may seem to be locked in an endless cycle of renewal - but not when it ...
The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...
As we all look across a sea of lifeless, nearly identically-styled consumer goods, a few of us have become nostalgic for a time when products like stereo equipment, phones, appliances, homes, cars, ...
A system used for controlling some of America's ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers is run from a 40-year-old computer which still uses floppy disks, a report has revealed. The Government ...
In my pre-teen and teenage years, there were few things that made me happier than going on adventures to other worlds. I carried around the “portals” to those worlds in a clear plastic box full of ...