Does anyone know how I can get data off vintage 8" floppy disks. I have the disks and an external drive. I tried it on a 386 with no success. I suspect I will need to run it on an old 8088, but am not ...

For people under a certain age, the 8 inch floppy disk is a historical curiosity. They might just have owned a PC that had a 5.25 inch disk drive, but the image conjured by the phrase “floppy disk” ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the course of the 1960s and 1970s, ...

What just happened? The US is rightly regarded as a world leader when it comes to military technology and power, so it always seemed strange that the nation still used 1970's IBM Series-1 computers - ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Floppy disks -- who needs 'em? They're not practical for storing digital photos, MP3 compressed music files or any of the other accoutrements of the digital lifestyle. They don't ...

Why the famous 'square hole' hack was a ticking time bomb ...

Huge swaths of the United States' massive nuclear arsenal of over 4,700 warheads are controlled entirely by 1970s-era IBM Series/1 software running on 8-inch floppy disks. As we reported earlier, the ...

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a startling report on the state of the government's information technology infrastructure on Wednesday. According to the report, the ...