Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives ... bits off those old floppies. Back in the day, the best way to get data off an old drive was to fire up an old computer.

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

Take the old CPU from your computer, remove any pins from its ... Although you may not be using your old floppy disks to store important data anymore, you can still get some use out of them ...

The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy ... disk has all but disappeared. It’s well over a decade since they ceased to be fitted to desktop and laptop ...

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage ...

60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to ...

The first full-stealth computer virus ... Aimed at the IBM PC, the Brain virus only slowed down the floppy disk drive and did no other damage. By replacing the boot sector in the floppy disk ...