Though the floppy disk was invented more than 50 years ago, it turns out airplanes continue to regularly use this archaic ...

Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but storage developed by Microsoft could last for millennia ...

Scientists have found a way to store all of humanity's most important data inside a piece of glass — and it could last longer than civilisation itself. View on euronews ...

Sometimes watching an old movie can feel like opening a time capsule. Nostalgia for some, younger audiences laugh at the use of brick-sized cellphones, cassette tapes, and floppy disks — technologies ...

even though it's been decades since we relied on the 3.5-inch disks "People who go in the back of their warehouse and might find a pallet or two of the floppy disks and they're about to take them to ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

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 ...

3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is pretty ...

Tokyo — With its azure ocean views and terraced rice paddies, the city of Hamada, population 50,000, is far from Japan's major urban centers of Tokyo and Osaka. But Hamada is no digital slouch. Just ...

The Japanese government still requires some of its agencies to save data on CDs and even floppy disks, Japanese English-language newspaper Nikkei Asia reports. Needless to say, those are some ...

In my pre-teen and teenage years, there were few things that made me happier than going on adventures to other worlds. I carried around the “portals” to those worlds in a clear plastic box full of ...