Floppy disks may seem like a relic from an ancient time of computers but there are still places and even governments in the world that still use them to run its most basic functions. Japan is no ...

Why the famous 'square hole' hack was a ticking time bomb ...

When you think of Japan, you might visualize ultra-modern bullet trains and self-cleaning toilets. But the other side of the story is the country was using floppy drives for government procedures at a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still used in the medical and airline... Some industries still use floppy disks. This is one ...

The mantra “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” only works for so long. Eventually, even if a system is still working fine, you’re going to want to upgrade it. That’s the lesson from the San Francisco ...

Why Zip disks and LS-120s couldn't defeat the 1.44MB disk ...

Floppy disks were the go-to format for transferring data from one device to another back in the '80s and '90s. Before CD drives, it's how you booted up "Doom." ...