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

Interestingly, though floppy disks are obsolete in modern computing, they remain in use in some niches. Hence, we can't really consider them dead, especially when very important industries still ...

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

Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data.

Interestingly, floppy disks have been deemed problematic as far back as three decades ago. In 1995, the FAA's Office of Aviation Medicine submitted an 82-page field study report (PDF) following an ...

To the average consumer, floppy disks have not been relevant for a long time. Your PC might not even have an optical disk drive these days, let alone a 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch floppy drive.

In a sense, it’s amazing floppy disks have hung around for this long. They only hold 1.44 megabytes of space – still enough for word processing documents but little else.

"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." ...

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.

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 ...