In some corner of my heart I miss handling floppy disks. I recently was given a Sony Vaio 3.5″ USB floppy drive which I hooked up to my Raspi running OSMC. I use floppy disks for “headless ...

The floppy disk is a technology that is known only to the youth of today as the inspiration for the Save icon. There’s a lot of retro computing history tied up in these fragile platters, thus… ...

The OS does have quite a dated look, but it's still an amazing feat for something packed within a floppy disk. It has a full GUI, can connect to the internet, and even has a library of games for ...

Mac OS X’s included Disk Utility may be more flexible than you think. One enterprising Mac user named Daniel Blade Olson has managed to craft together a RAID system using, of all things, a ...

I recently ordered this NEC USB floppy drive so I could finally go through all my old disks, keep what I want and get rid of them. Plus I figured since I do some IT stuff on the side it'd be good ...

There's something uniquely satisfying about the CLICK of putting a 3.5-inch floppy disk in the drive, and it's a shame you don't get to enjoy it anymore. That is, unless you are Dr. Moddnstine and ...

Opening the file directly from the floppy disk and saving the file to a different format like Rich Text before moving it on your Windows 10 HDD / SSD may just resolve the issue. Here is how to do it.

Ever been nostalgic for the majesty of 1.44MB floppy disks, but wished they came with 91,000x the storage capacity? One capable modder has heard your cry. Behold: The 128GB floppy disk.

The process involved cutting out a notch in a 3.5-inch floppy disk to make room for the SD Card—the sliding door acting as a shield for the SD Card’s metal contacts. Hacking the drive itself ...

OK, so I have a powerbook and I need to get a file from a machine with a floppy disk onto this one. the machine is a maybe 5 year old compaq laptop wich I cannot add to. I have an offce which will ...

Google’s Play store may have plenty of games to offer, but one avid hacker managed to scratch his retro itch by getting old DOS games to run on the new Nexus 7 tablet. Instead of using a hard ...

Floppy disk use declined in the late 1990s thanks to the compact disc, and computer m. Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo. ... How to Format a Drive to Install a New OS From Scratch.