Instead of having to boot DOS separately, you could just insert this disk and the ... less about how a floppy got cracked and copied and more about how to preserve these digital relics, check ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used ... It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as Sony’s Mavica line of digital cameras, but outside those who maintain ...

By mid-June, the Digital Agency had successfully abolished 1,034 regulations governing the use of floppy disks, retaining ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

A floppy disk is a flexible circle of plastic – the ... as they enabled contracts to be exchanged quickly. But the rise of digital messaging through phones and laptops made the fax machine ...

Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. "We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28," Kono told Reuters earlier today. The milestone, decades after ...

It’s been 35 years since the launch of the most important operating system you’ve never heard of -- and it was made by Steve ...

Floppy disks were first developed in the early 1970s as 8-inch (approximately 200 mm) disks, with smaller 5.25-inch (approximately 130 mm) disks appearing in 1976.

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

Floppy disks made news recently when Japan's digital minister, Taro Kano, declared "a war" on the devices, tweeting earlier this month that Japan's digital agency would change regulations ...

But these rules have now finally been scrapped, said Digital Minister Taro Kono. In 2021, Mr Kono had "declared war" on floppy disks. On Wednesday, almost three years later, he announced ...

SINGAPORE - Mr Alvin Yap’s interest in technology goes back to the 1980s, when floppy disks ruled and personal computers were shared. “My brother and I were once content to battle for the only ...