Does the entire US air traffic control system actually run on floppy disks and paper? Read this to find out the truth.

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

Using audio files on 3.5-inch floppy disks probably isn't the most efficient way to play music in your Tesla, but if you have ...

Japan’s Digital Minister Taro Kono announced late last month that he had successfully scrapped 1,034 government regulations that required the use of floppy disks. According to Reuters, Kono described ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's train system is not only relying on humans to run it, but turns out that a floppy disk plays a key role. ABC7 news reporter Luz ...

Tokyo — With its azure ocean views and terraced rice paddies, the city of Hamada, population 50,000, is far from Japan's major urban centers of Tokyo and Osaka. But Hamada is no digital slouch. Just ...

Tom Persky, founder of floppydisk.com, sells and recycles the archaic storage devices. He says in a new book that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers. "Probably half of the air fleet ...

Floppy disks may be obsolete, but they still hold irreplaceable pieces of our digital past. Archivists and retro tech enthusiasts are teaming up to recover their fragile data before it’s lost forever.

When evolutionary biologist Joseph Popp coded the first documented piece of ransomware in 1989, he had little idea it would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: (Tim Persky, Floppy disk seller) "If you think this is old, take a look at this. This is a floppy disk from the 1970s." ...

Dell Computer is offering its own alternative to the floppy disk. The company on Tuesday began offering the USB Memory Key, a small, removable storage device. Dell will offer a 16MB version of the USB ...