Turning to storage devices, he asked: "Where does one even buy a floppy disk these days?" This is not the first time Japan has hit the headlines for its old-fashioned habits - which remain a ...

After more than 50 years since the first one was made, Japan has officially killed off the iconic floppy disk. According to reports, the Japanese government has scrapped all 1,034 regulations ...

It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy ... A three-and-a-half inch floppy disk could accommodate up to just 1.44MB of data. More than 22,000 such disks would be ...

Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy.

Japan's Digital Agency is now set to change regulations to permit usage of modern online services, Kano tweeted this week. The floppy disk was invented in 1971, according to IBM, and gained ...

Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside ... who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has ...

The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we ... Floppy disks made news recently when Japan's digital minister, Taro Kano, declared "a war" on the devices, tweeting earlier this ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

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 ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

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 ...