Just insert a disk and the TV starts playing three-year-old’s favorite shows Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

Once upon a time, you could buy floppy drive cleaning disks at just about any stationary or computer store. These days, they’re harder to find. If you want to build one yourself, though, you might do ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside floppy enthusiasts needn’t fret — just use AOL keyword point that browser toward floppydisk.com. There, you can buy new floppies of ...

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 industries. When I was little, it was rare for people to ...

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 ...

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we still ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

The Japanese government is just starting to phase out the floppy disks, the Nikkei reported. Sony, the last major floppy-disk maker, stopped production of the storage media a decade ago. The Japanese ...