The patent application for the floppy disk was granted to two IBM engineers on this day in 1972.

When Michael McCreary bought three new computers for his company, he had no need for one of the oldest and most common computer technologies, the floppy drive. But like many computer customers, he ...

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

We have it good now that USB is a thing, but I sometimes miss the old ways to transfer files ...

Musician Espen Kraft stores his sound samples on floppy disks, using them to make his music for their authentic sound (Credit: Espen Kraft) The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Dell Computer Co. said it will discontinue floppy disk drives as standard equipment in its higher end Dimension 8250 desktop computers, effective next month. "When ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

Rare Apple computers made in the 1970s sell for amazing sums, but a bit of company memorabilia is up for auction at a price an average Mac fan might be able to afford. Which isn’t to say that a ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...

We asked recently how do you know when it's time to replace your computer rather than repair it. I put that question to Glenn Derene, electronics editor at Consumer Reports. GLENN DERENE: If you're ...