Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions.

That delightfully Web 1.0 site is owned by Tom Persky, who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that address ...

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 medium for loading microcode into the System ...

The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch ...

Anyone who thinks old computers only belong in a museum is wrong. We show how retro computers can still perform amazing and ...

The 8-inch would remain the norm for a few years, with storage capacity growing substantially to around 1.2 megabytes. However, the microcomputer boom was right around the corner. Floppy disks ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used ... compressed audio could be squeezed onto a standard 3.5 inch floppy, and then that the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night album ...

35 years ago, a simple 5.25 inch floppy disk with the inscription "AIDS Information" marked the beginning of one of the greatest scourges of networked humanity This form of malware, which blocks ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...