Having picked out a case, mainboard, CPU, RAM, and all other necessary components for my new rig, I've got one last choice to make: a black floppy drive. I use floppy disks quite often to interface ...

Ok, Guy at work had an Amiga 500 that he was going to throw away. I took it off his hands just because I never owned one (hell, I never even seen one) and thought my son would get a kick out of it ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, […] ...

Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless, many older applications or drivers may ...

That the USB thumb drive is the natural descendent of the floppy disk is certain. They both suffer from the same advantages and problems: portable and convenient, yet cheap, plastic and all too ...

More loyal readers (read: those willing to sit through a video featuring me) might remember a spot we did on turning an old floppy disk into a USB drive. The results were disastrous, involving ...