Though the floppy disk was invented more than 50 years ago, it turns out airplanes continue to regularly use this archaic ...

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

Despite being obsolete in modern computing, the 3.5-inch floppy disk lives on globally as the universal "Save" icon in almost ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

Tom Persky is the proud owner of Orange County-based FloppyDisc.com where they buy, recycle and sell these colorful, functional relics. Tom's shop in Lake Forest is a time machine, filled with tens of ...

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we still ...

even though it's been decades since we relied on the 3.5-inch disks "People who go in the back of their warehouse and might find a pallet or two of the floppy disks and they're about to take them to ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

Here’s a floppy drive which is being used as an audio sampler. At first glance we thought this was another offering which drives the stepper motor at a specific frequency to generate that ...