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

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. But a version ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still using old floppy disks to run its trains. Moreover, it could take as much as 10 years to upgrade the current 26-year-old system. Earlier this ...

I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

We knew it had to happen sooner or later: an x86 OEM has decided that it's time to put the old 1.44MB floppy drive (aka, Floppy Jr.) to rest. Dell will only be putting floppy drives in their Dimension ...

Many modern vehicles utilize computers and computer chips to some degree. Without them, you wouldn't be able to control a car with your phone. However, virtually the entire population of San Francisco ...

What? Japan had to declare war on floppy disks? The country’s digital minister, Taro Kono, publicly stated this on Twitter. According to the minister, the Japanese government has too many businesses ...

For garden variety daily computing tasks, the floppy disk has thankfully been a thing of the past for quite some time. Slow, limited in storage and easily corrupted, few yearn for the format to return ...

"Would never have expected US Customs to intentionally damage the floppy directly…" ...

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 ...

What? Japan had to declare war on floppy disks? The country’s digital minister, Taro Kono, publicly stated this on Twitter. According to the minister, the Japanese government has too many businesses ...