Before smartphones fit in our pockets and the cloud stored everything, there was the clunky, glorious world of ’80s tech.

The other Nintendo floppy disk on display was the Famicom Disk Card ... forming a basic trademark-based anti-copying scheme. In the early ’80s, you could easily fit an entire operating system ...

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

Officials from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) told KGO-TV in a recent interview that 5.25-inch floppy disks are still used to operate the city's train control system.

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard ... the bus which he calls the “USB of the 80s.” Historically, Shugart — a maker of disks — was tired of producing custom drive ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

A handful of games and applications were offered in this "tape wafer" format, and several thousand drives were sold before the floppy disk made them obsolete. See TRS-80 and how to spoof your ...