A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage ...

[gilmour509] posted a thorough gallery of a new custom-built computer and case made to look ... the most clever part involves a 3 1/2″ floppy disk that hides an SD card and works like a regular ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve ... the best way to get data off an old drive was to fire up an old computer. Now, with new devices specifically ...

Over the course of the 20th and 21st Centuries, technology has been advancing at the speed of a NASA X-43 breaking the sound ...

If you can gain access to this seeming "computer store," you’ll find a ... once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead, the Red-Headed Stepchild awaits, the ...

The first full-stealth computer virus. In 1986 ... Aimed at the IBM PC, the Brain virus only slowed down the floppy disk drive and did no other damage. By replacing the boot sector in the floppy ...