PC World is to stop selling floppy disks once current stock has run out. The computing retailer claims the amount of data (1.44MB) a floppy disk holds is no longer adequate for most day-to-day ...

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 ...

Q: I'm a doctor who was a medical missionary in Madagascar for 40 years, and the time has come for me to write my memoirs. But to do that I need access to my old e-mails and correspondence that were ...

But seriously, how are so many industries still using magnetic disks, even now? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Way back in ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...

An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still used in the medical and airline industries. When I was little, it was rare for people to ...

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 ...

As far as controls go, inserting a floppy disk of his son's choice starts the content streaming, popping a disk out pauses it ...