These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You ...

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the ...

What, wait? Sony’s been churning out floppy disks all these years? And 12m were sold last year in Japan alone? I guess that’s not enough though—as Sony Japan will cease selling them March 2011.

Iron oxide on the surface of the plastic may corrode material away, or it may lose its magnetism, preventing it from begin ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The 3.5-inch floppy disk’s long, slow, unceremonious march ...