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 ...

The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

Just over a year ago, the team programmed a Raspberry Pi Pico to read floppy disks. Now, they've taken ... and emulate a real floppy drive. It's also worth mentioning that Adafruit isn't alone ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010 ... in a recent video when he bought a stash of these real-life save icons in 720 kB format from eBay.

In a major upgrade effort, San Francisco’s public transit system is investing $212 million to replace outdated floppy ...

Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives ... [Shelby] walks us through some of the more common disk formats as well as some real oddballs like Microsoft Adventure which features ...