Among the plethora of obsolete removable media there are some which are lamented, but it can be difficult to find those who regret the passing of the floppy disk. These flexible magnetic disks in hard ...

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 ...

There’s plenty of fun to be had with retrocomputers of yesteryear, but for modern users, it can be something of a culture shock. Going back to floppy disks after all these years is a reminder of just ...

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 ...

Data storage mechanisms have come a long way since IBM proudly introduced the first "memory disk" in 1971. By the end of the '70s, a number of manufacturers were churning out 5.25-in. floppy disks.

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 ...

Bottom line: We may live in an era of incredibly powerful GPUs, virtual reality, and lifelike graphics, but the retro gaming market is as popular as ever. There are numerous current and upcoming "mini ...

Three rows down and four columns over on the iPhone emoji “Objects & Symbols” page is a small black square. It’s to the right of a pager and directly under a CD, perhaps giving more insight into the ...