Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives ... data off of old floppies like the KryoFlux and the Greaseweazle, you can get the full flux map of the disk. With this, you can build ...

Despite my love of the old and crusty storage media of yesteryear, the floppy disk wasn’t long for this earth. It held on for quite a while, last well into the 2000s. However, by the turn of the ...

In this case one of the bad disks was fixed, while a second still ... Of course if you can’t fix that old floppy, you can always make an IR filter out of it. Thanks to [Stephen Walters] for ...

Floppy disks enabled anyone to create and sell programs ... So long as they keep running, and you can find fresh floppies to use on them as the old ones wear out, no one wants to pay to replace ...

The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch ...

Barbara Asuka, deputy curator at the Extinct Media Museum in Tokyo, checks the condition of the ‘Pathe-Baby’ (9.5mm film) ...

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...

The simplicity and reliability in certain controlled environments make floppy disks surprisingly resilient. Even as storage capacities and transfer speeds of modern devices have soared, the humble ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

From Betacam videotapes to floppy disks and vintage Sony devices, the museum is a showcase for old cameras and telecom equipment, including a 1916 Japanese-made “Lily” still camera ...