Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite ...

Some background: I'm a 35-year old guy in software development and IT and work with a much younger crowd. Had a visitor to my place today from work, and had to explain what a floppy disc was. Not some ...

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 ...

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

When I was little, it was rare for people to have computers in their homes. Then my friend's dad got one which stored data on what looked to me like an audio cassette. Then somebody got a computer ...

Japan may well be a leader in innovation and technology, but this week a prominent government figure revealed how it sometimes likes to hold on to old technologies, too. Days after taking up his role ...

hey all,<br><br> i am ridding myself of floppy drives forever. since i still run win9x [stop the laughing -- View image here: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/infopop ...

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the ...

Iron oxide on the surface of the plastic may corrode material away, or it may lose its magnetism, preventing it from begin ...

On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here?

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 ...