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

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 ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of these ...

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Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has ...

The time has come to bid farewell to one of the PC's more stalwart friends - the floppy disk. Computing superstore PC World said it will no longer sell the storage devices, affectionately known as ...

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Through the looking glass: Do you remember floppy disks? The archaic storage device used to ruled computers of the 1980s and 1990s, but a good number of you reading this may have never seen or used ...

Hear the word “PC” and it’s almost never associated with anything “cool” or “interesting.” I mean when was the last time you truly gasped at an innovative laptop or desktop PC? I don’t think I have in ...

The New York Public Library’s digital curator of performing arts Doug Reside has posted a useful guide to recovering old data from floppy discs. The New York Public Library’s digital curator of ...

The floppy disk, which has been around since the early days of home computing, is finally being killed off by Sony. Harry Wallop Harrywallop 26 April 2010 • 2:37pm The Japanese electronics ...