Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

Gen Z may not realize it, but there was once a time when personal computer users relied heavily on floppy disk storage for everything from data retention to gaming. The world has moved on to solid ...

This is one of those “I remember it just like it was yesterday” stories. I’m sitting there with my first personal computer, a fledgling IBM PC with two 360-kilobyte disk drives and 64K of memory, and ...