As we all look across a sea of lifeless, nearly identically-styled consumer goods, a few of us have become nostalgic for a time when products like stereo equipment, phones, appliances, homes, cars, ...

Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government. The announcement (Japanese, machine translated) last ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

Not too long ago, part of using a computer was often finding the correct disk for the application you wanted to run and inserting it into your machine before you could start. With modern storage, this ...

Dell Computer said Wednesday it will stop putting the drives in its desktop computers next month and offer them only as an option. Newer storage devices can hold far more data, at a competitive price, ...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. As proprietary, non-standardized formats go, Iomega’s Zip drive got a heck of a ...

You only need one disk per game.

Floppy driveshttps://www.wired.co.uk/topic/floppy-disk, though nearly extinct now, once ruled portable storage. In addition to their capacity to store well over a ...