As we all look across a sea of lifeless, nearly identically-styled consumer goods, a few of us have become nostalgic for a time when products like stereo equipment, phones, appliances, homes, cars, ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

The 1541 Disk Drive Computer project boots a Commodore 1541 like a KIM-1, letting you run Tiny BASIC and machine code over ...

Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless, many older applications or drivers may ...

The United States nuclear program still relies on computer systems that use 8-inch floppy disks, technology that went obsolete nearly 40 years ago, according to a report issued by the government’s ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and Dropbox, it was the only viable way to store data portable. Where did they get ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

Many government agencies, U.S. and international alike, have a reputation for sometimes using tools that are horribly out of date. But according to a report from a congressional watchdog agency, a ...

The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year. Sony, one of a ...

In my pre-teen and teenage years, there were few things that made me happier than going on adventures to other worlds. I carried around the “portals” to those worlds in a clear plastic box full of ...

Some things we don't think much about; we just accept them. But have you ever wondered why the hard drive on a Windows system ...