In 2022, Japan's digital minister "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech like CDs and mini-discs, after a committee discovered nearly 2,000 areas in which businesses were still ...

Some media formats see endless celebration and devotion, their disciples carrying the torch throughout whatever the new and normal becomes. But ...

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the 5.25 ... but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage ...

My business, which used to be 90% CD and DVD duplication, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. It’s shocking to me. — Tom Persky In the course of writing a book all about yours-truly’s ...

The other Nintendo floppy disk on display was the Famicom Disk Card ... hard drive sizes were still under a Gigabyte. 99% of audio CDs you’ll find are circular, and for good reason: they ...

If you’ve ever clicked the little square “Save” button on your computer, you’ve used a relic of the past without even ...

their huge storage compared to floppy disks made them very popular. However, like all removable media of that era, the Zip was eclipsed by recordable CDs and the Internet. Storage capacities ...

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used as ... They quickly competed with CDs and DVDs in terms of capacity and were far easier to write to.

(2) A device that spins, reads and writes a removable storage medium such as a CD, DVD or floppy disk. In the past, hard disks were also available as removable media (see removable disk).

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...