The pbm2track tool repurposes a floppy disk's track timing diagram into a secret tool for hiding pixel images.

Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside floppy enthusiasts needn’t fret — just use AOL keyword point that browser toward floppydisk.com. There, you can buy new floppies of ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

Floppy disks have been widely used as magnetic disks for personal computers since around 1980, and were used as recording media until optical disk drives such as CDs and DVDs became the standard in ...

Cool find! The combination of DVD and floppy disks initially seems bizarre, but if the system was introduced in 1998 it kind of makes sense. DVD had been out for about 2 years at that point, but there ...

Tom Persky, founder of floppydisk.com, sells and recycles the archaic storage devices. He says in a new book that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers. "Probably half of the air fleet ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...

This all shouldn’t come as a shock. Floppy disks have been around since the mid-1970s, when IBM had to make the tricky decision whether they should be used as a storage medium, an angular frisbee, or ...

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 ...

The Japanese government is just starting to phase out the floppy disks, the Nikkei reported. Sony, the last major floppy-disk maker, stopped production of the storage media a decade ago. The Japanese ...