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 ...

Like vinyl records and eight-track tapes, floppy drives are slowly succumbing to the march of technology. Dell Computer Corp., one of the world's largest computer makers, said Wednesday it will stop ...

It's shocking how many obscure pieces of 90s hardware ran on floppy disks ...

The alphabet didn’t start at C for no reason.

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 ...

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.

You can officially move your old computer floppy disks to your obsolete file, since Sony has announced plans to discontinue selling them in Japan in March 2011 ...

In a time not so long ago, 3.5-inch floppy drives were something that every desktop computer had. But with our ever-increasing data needs, the paltry 1.44MB of space just doesn’t cut it anymore. Enter ...