When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...

About two years after the country’s digital minister publicly declared a “war on floppy discs,” Japan reportedly stopped using floppy disks in governmental systems as of June 28. Per a Reuters report ...

The 1541 Disk Drive Computer project boots a Commodore 1541 like a KIM-1, letting you run Tiny BASIC and machine code over ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...

Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy ...

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 ...

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 ...