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

Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since ... were not a fixture in the 16-bit desktop computing world. It’s something [Jozef Bogin] has taken aim at ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

However, not everyone had a dual-head floppy drive to take advantage of it. Much like the video wars of the 1980s, there was ...

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 ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

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 Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...