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On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here?
“I gotta lot of private data on these old disks, I better get rid of them to make sure no one sees what I do on my computer,” the YouTuber says at the start of his video. With labels such as “furry ...
Q: I have a desktop computer running Windows 8.1. My problem has been I do not feel as if this computer or any computer that is running this OS is secure because every time the computer is turned on, ...
Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite ...
Q: I'm a doctor who was a medical missionary in Madagascar for 40 years, and the time has come for me to write my memoirs. But to do that I need access to my old e-mails and correspondence that were ...
ATLANTA -- When Michael McCreary bought three new computers for his company, he had no need for one of the oldest and most common computer technologies, the floppy drive. But like many computer ...
No matter what the size—eight-inch, 5 1/4-inch, 3 1/2-inch—floppy disks are the most iconic symbols of old-school computing. But how do they actually work? The 8-Bit Guy spends 15 minutes breaking ...