Contrary to what many may think, MS-DOS wasn’t actually the creation of Microsoft—the then-newcomers licensed the disk system from a company called Seattle Computer Products (SCP) in 1981.

Posted in computer hacks, Retrocomputing Tagged backward compatibility, dos 6.22, floppy disk, native hardware, parallel port, PS/2 Exploring PC Floppy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock August 27 ...

As the computer comes to life, a monitor sitting on top of the rack displays a MS-DOS-style text crawl that shows the computer extracting .CEC files from a self-extracting file called EGREEN23.EXE ...

Apple II used two disk image formats for 5.25-inch floppy disks: DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. ... To create a disk image, first click the computer type in the tab bar at the top.

The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking contractors to modernize its decades-old computer systems within four years.

"The sound of a computer's floppy disk drive will be as closely associated with 20th Century computing as the sound of a computer dialling into the internet," said Mr Magrath. But with computer users ...

America's air traffic control network runs on decades-old technology, and the acting FAA director wants to replace the whole ...

They may have barely enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, but some people still love using this technology from the 1980s.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as reported by NPR, is looking to ditch the ancient technology of floppy disks and ...

A business owner who says he's "the last man" still selling floppy disc - the bygone computer technology that was thought to have gone the way of the 8-track - says that airlines are among his biggest ...

With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives. And now, cloud storage is ...

With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives. And now, cloud storage is ...