Abstract: The authors have developed a 3.5-in, 16-Mbyte, large-capacity, high-speed floppy disk drive (FDD). A novel embedded sector server technology with a learning-forward control and a double-loop ...

The journey of the government of Japan towards a digital future is now without floppy disks. As the country's Digital Agency completes its overhaul of outdated systems, the last remaining link to ...

In a significant technological shift, Japan has bid farewell to floppy disks, marking the end of an era for the country’s government computer systems. Announced by the Japan Digital Agency on ...

Floppy disks may seem like a relic from an ancient time of computers but there are still places and even governments in the world that still use them to run its most basic functions. Japan is no ...

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 modernise the bureaucracy. By ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – 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 modernise the ...

The storage industry is about to receive a wake-up call equivalent to catching a pale of semi-frozen water to the face. In a game changing press-release, SanDisk just announced the world’s first four ...