It’s written with specific reference to Commodore 5.25-inch floppies, but aside from some of the specific software, the techniques could be applied to any discs. Most interesting is his ...

It could be game over for Windows users as security researchers warn of malicious cyber-attacks explicitly targeting ...

In a way, we don’t miss these days, but in other ways, we do. It wasn’t that long ago that floppies were king. Now it is a race to preserve the data on them while you still can.

The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.

F orget 3.5" floppies-San Francisco's Muni Metro is one of the few transit systems still using 5.25" ones. But not for much longer: the vintage storage media will be replaced as part of a $212m ...

Perhaps one of the most well-known emulators, Dolphin supports both Nintendo Wii and GameCube games natively on both Apple ...

Ask your colleagues how many Stringy Floppies their computers have and expect a bewildered reaction. Nothing to do with "strings of text" or "string theory," a Stringy Floppy was a magnetic tape ...

This was a poor solution to the paltry storage capacity of floppies in the early 1980s, because the disk's rotation was alternated. See floppy disk. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Floppies "aren't made for long-term storage", which forces users to "confront the transience of art and information in the face of time and decay". Maybe "one out of 100 floppies goes bad for me ...

These disks were usually blank with nothing on them, but the original Mac OS and third-party software shipped on floppies. This was even before CD-ROMs were available. One function of the original ...