The award-winning new Terminal A may be the pride of Newark Liberty International Airport. But behind the scenes, the ...

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage ...

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010 ... rely on a dwindling stack of new old stock, or the used market. With the purported unreliability of this ...

By the early 2000s, floppy disks had become increasingly rare, used primarily with legacy hardware and industrial equipment. Sony manufactured the last new floppy disk in 2011. Despite its ...

While consumer devices haven’t used floppy disks in years, manufacturers still produce them in limited quantities to meet niche demands. You can buy floppy disks on Amazon, and floppy disk ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

commonly used diskette. See floppy disk. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

Even millennials are old enough to have used floppy disks in their younger days. But few of them likely had exposure to the 8-inch behemoths that predated the 3 1/2-inch floppy disks most are ...