What is a boot disk and why do I need one? A boot disk is a floppy or a CD that you can use to boot your computer into a state in which you can use it to fix a problem. There will be times that ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

There’s a joke that circulates online every few years. It’s a picture of a floppy disk, accompanied by the claim that a kid thought it was a real-life version of the “save” icon.

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past ...

The Defense Department has transitioned away from a 1970s-era nuclear command and control system that relied on eight-inch floppy disks. The “modernizing” effort was quietly completed in June.

When you are typing in Google Docs and you want to save, you use a floppy disk. I am not making this up. I am a big fan of keyboard commands, so when I save I like to use ctrl-S. I have no idea ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's train system is not only relying on humans to run it, but turns out that a floppy disk plays a key role. ABC7 news reporter ...

YouTube isn't exactly short of low-tech musical recreations of famous songs, particularly when it comes to the humble floppy drive. The once ubiquitous storage device has belted out classics like ...

It was only a couple of decades ago that schools were filled with floppy disks, overhead projectors and cassette players. So it's testament to how quickly technology has changed that today's young ...

which included creating a 128GB floppy drive out of an old SD card and floppy disk reader. The build is an impressive case mod on its own. The original system is an IBM Aptiva from 1995 ...

Operation Chaos is a tricky side task that asks players to decrypt the floppy disk to get to the next part of the mission. It takes players approximately five to seven hours to complete the full ...

While many versions are still preserved on their original floppy disks, a new archival discovery appears to be the influential program’s earliest known forerunner still in existence. As recently ...