We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...

[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 ...

The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable.

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. "We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28," Kono told Reuters earlier today. The milestone, decades after ...

Throughout the 1960s, computers went through a series of major advances in technology, design, speed, price, storage, and ...

Every September, evening temperatures begin to chill, high school football games kick off, pumpkins sprout in farm fields and ...

One child thinks a cassette is a battery, while another mistakes a floppy disk for a calculator and someone else tries to activate a boombox by saying 'Hey Google'. So, which of these retro gadge ...

For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

For the first time, authorities said they believe the 9-year-old who went missing in 2000 is dead. Search warrants point to ...

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...