Iron oxide on the surface of the plastic may corrode material away, or it may lose its magnetism, preventing it from begin ...

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the ...

Windows 11 supports the old-school internet connection technology that everyone who had a computer in the 1990s will remember ...

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'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 ...

Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite ...

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 ...

ANSWER: Here is a link that offers four different ways. I'd use the one that shows you how to remove the inner disc and cut it with scissors. But any of the four ways would work, including burning ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, ...

EarthBound's combination of JRPG and weird elements make it stand out in the Super Nintendo era of gaming. Whether it was the journey Ness and the party took to save the world, or the odd-looking ...

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 ...