2009 was a difficult year for floppy disc manufacturing, but the business is actually rebounding a bit in 2010, said Will Qualls, global product director for the magnetic tape business of Imation.

Those of us of advancing years will remember the era of the floppy disc. Maybe not that of the 8-inch drive, but probably its 5.25-inch and certainly its 3.5-inch cousins. Some will remember the ...

Santa Clara Men’s Ultimate is a fast-growing program that aims to be competitive nationally. The team has improved its regional competitiveness significantly over the recent years, and plays against ...

Nothing to do with "strings of text" or "string theory," a Stringy Floppy was a magnetic tape drive for the Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computer. Introduced in 1979 by Exatron in Sunnyvale ...

The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations. The deal is ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

It was an unfor-tuna-te incident. A female flyer experienced the ultimate inflight faux pas after witnessing her seatmate brazenly devour a can of tuna in the air. She detailed the flying fish ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway ...

US shoppers are having a wonderful time hunting for PS5 disc drive stock at the moment. I'm seeing availability at all major retailers, with seemingly plenty to go around. That might not last ...

It's best to avoid these surprises, if possible. "If you’re a nervous flyer, little things can really set you off,” says Jackie Sills-Dellegrazie of New York City, founder of the travel blog ...

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...