The pbm2track tool repurposes a floppy disk's track timing diagram into a secret tool for hiding pixel images.

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

When was the last time that you used a floppy disk? While still used as the save icon in modern software packages like Microsoft’s Office suite, it’s unusual to see one out in the wild. Given that a ...

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 ...

3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is pretty ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

Developed during the 1960s, a Floppy Disk is certainly a thing of the past. But some users may still need it for some reason. Floppy drives were extensively used during the 1980s, 1990s, and early ...

Tom Persky, founder of floppydisk.com, sells and recycles the archaic storage devices. He says in a new book that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers. "Probably half of the air fleet ...

An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still used in the medical and airline industries. When I was little, it was rare for people to ...