Personal computers stopped including disk drives decades ago. The FAA is catching up slowly.

The Information Display System 4 (IDS-4) for air traffic control supports 3.5-inch floppy disks that contain vital weather ...

The FAA said yesterday that it will stop using floppy disks as part of a long-awaited upgrade that will give air traffic ...

Decades after the computer industry moved on, federal officials plan to finally ground the once-vaunted tech relic.

When you think of archives, you probably think of dusty old boxes of paper documents, photos, diaries, letters and flyers, ...

Moving files between computers is such an obvious thing to do now. You can use a USB flash drive. You can just email them if they're small. Cloud storage is ...

The US Federal Aviation Administration will replace floppy disk-based information display systems in air traffic control with ...

Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government. The announcement (Japanese, machine translated) last ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

If you’re a big retro tech fan, you might still have a floppy drive on hand, or even some sort of high-end disk imaging solution. If you’re a little less committed, you may still have ...