One piece of '90s tech that has seemingly been forgotten and never returned, though, is the floppy disk. Although it still holds on as the standard icon for the "Save" function in computers and apps, ...

Recently attempted to read my 5.25″ floppy disks from the pre-Windows x86 days. Mostly WordStar files. Tried so many different ways. I have multiple 5.25″ disk drives.

Floppy disks are ideal "floppy table" stabilisers, whether in the dining room or on the patio. They are also good for wedges filling in gaps where wood has to be cut. I have also embossed them in a ...

Thanks to several utilities for Microsoft Windows, you can now access vintage Mac 3.5-inch floppy disks on modern PCs. One such utility is MacDisk from L&S Duhem. The company also makes two other ...

Recently retired Boeing 747s still use 3.5-inch floppy disks to load updated navigational databases. Cramming large new tech into old tech is bad, but floppy disks aren't inherently bad. The ...

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...

The floppy disk had become an old pair of shoes, their soles and laces so worn out as to be \[…\] Skip to main content. Open Navigation Menu. Floppy Disks: A Eulogy. Security; Politics; ...

Getting data off an ancient floppy disk or computer tape isn't easy, but it can be done with the help of clever software and hardware. In 2012, William Parker and his colleagues went hunting for a ...

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 ...

Floppy disks are not the only ‘antique’ still in use in Japan. For example, some small and medium enterprises and government agencies are still sending documents by fax instead of E-mail.