8-inch floppy disk, which held an amazing 79.7 KiloBytes (KB) of data. Hey, trust me, that was a big deal then when our other portable storage choices were IBM 12-row/80-column punched cards or 9 ...

Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics.

He’s planning more information about his floppy drive music making in the future and maybe even instructions on building your own personal disk drive orchestra. Apparently [SileNT] has an ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

It was only a couple of decades ago that schools were filled with floppy disks, overhead projectors and cassette players. So it's testament to how quickly technology has changed that today's young ...

Its connected, cloud-based capabilities have become indispensable for businesses of all sizes and steamrolled the perpetual license model for software downloaded from floppy disks and CD-ROMs.

Online learning seems new, but it’s older than you think. The field’s predecessor, distance education, can be traced back ...

GREENVILLE — Darke County awarded $750,000 in grant money. Commissioners Matt Aultman, Marshall Combs, and Larry Holmes were ...

and featured an optional floppy disk drive. The hard drive did not make an appearance until the release of IBM's XT machine in 1983. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) It happened on August 12 ...

The world’s most valuable company is loved, and feared, because of the fanatical control it maintains over the iPhone. How long can that last?