If you plan to buy a new one, there are several USB Floppy Disk Drives available in the market that are plug-and-play and work just fine on a Windows 10 computer. Just plug the device in ...

Old floppy disks are also useful for retro PC enthusiasts ... you’re using a dodgy USB hub or have a bad port on an older computer, the drive may not work due to lack of power.

Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data. All the software and programmes they ...

Although the floppy disk was replaced by more efficient storage technologies in the 1990s, some firms still rely on these ...

Data is arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk in 'concentric' tracks, much like the ring-like grooves on a vinyl record. When inserted into a computer's floppy disk drive, a metal slide ...

The only way to transfer the designs from his computer to the machine was via floppy disk. “We started with eight disks, but four of them stopped working, which made me very uneasy,” he says.

Even the United States' nuclear forces are phasing out floppy disks. That's right — the world's largest, most destructive arsenal of nuclear weapons has been relying on computer systems from the ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

Two years ago, Japan’s Digital Minister Taro Kono turned heads when he declared war on an almost obsolete piece of computer hardware: the floppy disk. In a post on social media, Kono said that ...

Japan’s Digital Agency announced on Wednesday it has rid its use of outdated floppy disks to operate its government computer systems. The only system still in place that requires the use of ...