Japan has scrapped more than 1,000 procedures and regulations that required the use of floppy disks. The outdated technology had remained widespread and firmly ingrained in a country reluctant to give ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...

Floppy disks may seem like a relic from an ancient time of computers but there are still places and even governments in the world that still use them to run its most basic functions. Japan is no ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

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 ...

A dad turned floppy disks into a toddler TV remote, and somehow it works better than smart screens ...

Tom Persky, founder of floppydisk.com, sells and recycles the archaic storage devices. He says in a new book that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers. "Probably half of the air fleet ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

Thanks to British Airways axing its entire 747 fleet, Pen Test Partners got a rare look at one of their cockpits, according to The Register. The cybersecurity firm found that the plane’s navigation ...

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

Are you afraid to fly? You might be a little less comfortable taking to the skies after learning that Boeing 747 airplanes still—as in right now, in the year 2020—receive critical navigation software ...