3M, a chemical company known for products such as adhesives and Post-it notes, also once produced floppy disks. The technology media IEEE Spectrum explains the history of 3M floppy disks. The first ...

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 ...

Since the dawn of computing, we've struggled with how to store all this digital stuff. International Business Machines helped launch the PC revolution in the 1980s, but computers were dealing with ...

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 ...