Jokes about the antiquated technology that runs Muni's subway have long made the rounds among riders. But the floppy disk software has passed its expiration date.

As of February 2024, there are over 2,000 floppy disk releases listed on Discogs, mostly featuring different styles of electronic music. The most popular style listed for floppy disk music on ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as Sony… ...

“Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable, a very well understood way to get information in and out of a machine,” he says. “Plus, they have the additional feature of not being very ...

Hoffman's song for DiskFight starts slow and builds to match the rising intensity of the game. The tune in question, called Disk Menace, is an Amiga-generated drum and bass song that does get quite ...

These stores typically have used 3.5-inch floppy disks for sale, and you can expect to pay around $0.25 per disk. No more than $0.50 each, else you’re being ripped off. Fredy Jacob / Unsplash ...

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...

How to use Floppy Disk Drive on Windows 11/10. If you have an old physical Floppy Drive that you can attach to your device, then you will need to download the latest driver from the Windows Update ...

Floppy disk music arguably peaked in the 2010s, but in the 2020s, it’s still going strong; Discogs.com shows a healthy 500-plus floppy releases in the 2020 category, which is more than the ...

The floppy disk lives on as technical shorthand instead of a physical object — that is, until everyone rightfully adopts the “ctrl/command + S” shortcut. See More: Culture; ...

Floppy disks made news recently when Japan's digital minister, Taro Kano, declared "a war" on the devices, tweeting earlier this month that Japan's digital agency would change regulations ...