Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern ...

If you plan to buy a new one, there are several USB Floppy Disk Drives available in the market that are plug-and-play and work just fine on a Windows 10 computer. Just plug the device in ...

Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data. All the software and programmes they ...

Old floppy disks are also useful for retro PC enthusiasts ... you’re using a dodgy USB hub or have a bad port on an older computer, the drive may not work due to lack of power.

Data is arranged on the surface of the magnetic disk in 'concentric' tracks, much like the ring-like grooves on a vinyl record. When inserted into a computer's floppy disk drive, a metal slide ...

It’s a fascinating look into computer culture from before the Internet, even though by 2009 the Internet had well and truly eclipsed it, when disks like these were treasured for the information ...

The only way to transfer the designs from his computer to the machine was via floppy disk. “We started with eight disks, but four of them stopped working, which made me very uneasy,” he says.

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...