Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside floppy enthusiasts ... recycle your disks, or send them in to get all that precious vintage stuff transferred off of them.

He's not alone; other collectors and retro computing enthusiasts continue to use and trade floppy disks to this day. Why do they linger? As Persky told NPR, they're "extremely stable, extremely ...

One child thinks a cassette is a battery, while another mistakes a floppy disk for a calculator and someone else tries to activate a boombox by saying 'Hey Google'. So, which of these retro gadge ...

Originally [Kevin] had ordered an authentic Macintosh with the intent of getting it working again, but a broken floppy disk drive and ... to give it the full retro feel of computers from this ...

Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...

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 ...

Files are copied then deleted from one of the 35 floppy disks that have almost disappeared into our past The soundtrack is the unmistakeable chunter and the image is ...

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The first company GloriousCow mentioned in the history of floppy disk copying was a California company called Formaster. The image below is a scan of a 1983 magazine published by Vintage Computing ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

The setup is a classic Apple IIe, with dual 5.25-inch floppy drives and an Apple monitor. The keyboard and drives may not ...