In the 1980s, as the floppy disk era started its (very) slow descent into irrelevance, the risk of the hard disk era began.

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 ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used ... and then that the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night album comes in at only a shade over that time. With some nifty manipulation ...

No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used ... Unlike traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs contain no moving parts, making them small ...

The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli disks. The drive's bundled software could lock the files for security. See Bernoulli box.

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...