Though the floppy disk was invented more than 50 years ago, it turns out airplanes continue to regularly use this archaic ...

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

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 ...

When you think of Japan, you might visualize ultra-modern bullet trains and self-cleaning toilets. But the other side of the story is the country was using floppy drives for government procedures at a ...

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... Some industries still use floppy disks. This is one ...

The mantra “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” only works for so long. Eventually, even if a system is still working fine, you’re going to want to upgrade it. That’s the lesson from the San Francisco ...