Its 79K of storage may seem like nothing to ... Yep, they're driven by floppy disks. Also: The best NAS devices of 2024 And, of course, some people, such as musician Espen Kraft, still use floppy ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

This includes the Adafruit_Floppy project ... to reliably read from these once ubiquitous storage devices: archiving the data stored on these disks before they invariably succumb to so-called ...

The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to ...

The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations. The deal is ...

Newer storage devices can hold far more data ... a technology consulting firm in San Jose. Floppy disks have lost their allure for many people who have evolved to newer, larger-capacity technology.

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...

Turning to storage devices, he asked: "Where does one even buy a floppy disk these days?" This is not the first time Japan has hit the headlines for its old-fashioned habits - which remain a ...