All of this may leave the modern reader wondering: What is a floppy disk? An artifact from a time when “the world was not wired,” according to Tom Persky, who inventories and sells floppy disks at what may be one of the largest such companies left, FloppyDisk.com. “There was nowhere to log in to,” Mr. Persky said in an interview. “Introduced in the 1970s, the eight-inch floppy disk is a disk-based storage medium that holds 80 kilobytes of data,” it said in its report. “The question is, What is the cost of using the floppy disk as opposed to the cost of transitioning to something else like a USB drive or linking to the internet?”

Source: New York Times October 24, 2019 16:41 UTC