Antiquated disk media is rarer than ever, but floppy disks were once all the rage. These would-be floppy stand-ins, however, ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

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Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government. The announcement (Japanese, machine translated) last ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

One of the best parts of retrocomputing is that you can obtain so many broken systems and peripherals for repairing and other assorted fun. This was the wholesome activity that [Drygol] embarked on ...

A prisoner at New Jersey State Prison has publically voiced frustration at being forced to rely on floppy disks for critical legal work. The US state's prison system restricts inmates to using floppy ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) -- Like vinyl records and eight-track tapes, floppy drives are slowly succumbing to the march of technology. Dell Computer Corp., one of the world's largest computer makers, ...

Sony, which has a 70 percent share of the Japanese market for 3.5-inch floppy discs, will discontinue sales of those discs in that country and withdraw from the market at the end of March 2011, ...

I don’t mean “oh you can play old games on your phone”, everyone knows that. I mean playing old games using an actual floppy disk drive. This video by LGR shows how its done, using a phone’s USB port ...