In the 1990s, floppy disks were the medium of choice for home and business users alike to copy and store important data. Floppy disk use declined in the late 1990s thanks to the compact disc, and ...

With 20+ years of experience covering consumer tech and policy, Chloe now leads PCMag's news coverage. In August 1984, my parents bought an Apple IIe for about $2,500, making them one of the first on ...

The New York Public Library’s digital curator of performing arts Doug Reside has posted a useful guide to recovering old data from floppy discs. The New York Public Library’s digital curator of ...

Owning a smartphone means you have thousands of games at your fingertips, but capturing the nostalgia of playing a game saved on a floppy disk isn't as simple as downloading an app. Reviving floppy ...

Floppy disks were once widely distributed as a recording medium for PCs, but with the advent of new recording media, floppy disks have long been regarded as outdated relics, but some companies and ...

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

A forum post by New Zealand electronics enthusiast [zl2wrw] about retreiving waypoints from a mysterious floppy disk caught our eye. The navigation system on his friend’s fishing boat had died and was ...

Want to launch a nuclear missile? You’ll need a floppy disk. That’s according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the Pentagon was still using ...