Here's How Floppy Disks Are Inspiring A New Music Scene

Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite ...
Engadget

Japan’s government says goodbye to floppy disks

Floppy disks may seem like a relic from an ancient time of computers but there are still places and even governments in the world that still use them to run its most basic functions. Japan is no ...
Entrepreneur

San Francisco’s Train System Is Still Run on Floppy Disks. It May Finally Get an Upgrade.

San Francisco’s Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) still runs on data that is stored on floppy disks. A $212 million overhaul will move the tech five generations ahead, according to officials. If ...

Floppy disks get a second life at Cambridge University Library

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 ...
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Library is Rescuing Historical Treasures Trapped on Old Floppy Disks from the ‘Digital Dark Ages’

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