Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and Dropbox, it was the only viable way to store data portable. Where did they get ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

Famously, the save icon on most computer user interfaces references a fairly obsolete piece of technology: the venerable floppy disk. It’s likely that most people below the age of about 30 have never ...

Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago ...

[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 ...

Just built a new rig, here's the scenario.<br><br>New floppy drive is recognized by windows, looks fine by all software accounts. However, the read light stays on constantly, and won't acknowledge ...