Overall, the experience reinforced that floppy disks aren’t interchangeable carriers; they are unique artifacts with their ...
A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...
At IFA last month, Sharge was showing off a number of new products as they normally do. But one product that caught my eye was the Disk Pro. This is an external SSD that I’ve now taken on a couple of ...
There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...
I'm going to admit something here. I've never once touched a floppy disk with my bare hands. Yet, I somehow feel quite a bit of nostalgia for the old bit of tech. That's why my eye was immediately ...
A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...
When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...
Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...
Daniel is a News Writer from the United Kingdom. Relatively new to the industry with almost three years of experience, he has focused on establishing himself in the gaming space. While he focuses on ...