THE TOP ten office relics have been revealed from fax machines to floppy disks, a new survey has found. A poll, of 2,000 ...

“Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable, a very well understood way to get information in and out of a machine,” he says. REUTERS But he is not expecting it to survive another 20 years.

T he oldest government computer still in operation today is over 25 billion kilometers (15.5 billion miles) from Earth, and ...

A single unlabeled 3.5″ floppy disk could be formatted as 360, 720, or 1440k IBM drive, a 400, 800, or 1440k Macintosh drive, an Apple II volume, or an Amiga, or an Acorn, or a host of other ...

Such disks were already becoming obsolete by the end of that decade, being edged out by smaller, non-floppy 3.5 to 5.25-inch disks, before being almost completely replaced by the CD in the late 90s.

"Floppy disk production ended 10 years ago, and we've urged that bank to go online," a spokeswoman for the city's accounting department told CBS News. "But they cling to their old system." ...

I remember when floppy disks were actually floppy. I'm not quite old enough to recall the eight-inch ones, but oh, yes, I remember the five-and-a-quarter inch ones very well.

The warehouse also holds 8-inch floppy disks - an even older storage medium - including one labeled as containing the 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon U.S. presidential debate.