Those of us of advancing years will remember the era of the floppy disc. Maybe not that of the 8-inch drive, but probably its 5.25-inch and certainly its 3.5-inch cousins. Some will remember the ...

I'll say this for Dixons Store Group, eponymous controllers of the high-street retail name and PC World superstores. It gets a lot of mileage out of dropping a product line. As it crossed first film ...

Using a disk drive today is trivial. But back “in the day,” it was fairly complex both because the drives were simple and the CPUs were not powerful by today’s standards. [Thomas] has been working on ...

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 ...

The patent application for the floppy disk was granted to two IBM engineers on this day in 1972.

There is a project in my future that involves writing files to a 5.25" floppy. I need recommendations for PCs that meet these requirements. I am looking at two options: 1) an old classic PC with an ...

How are you formatting the floppies? I believe that WinImage will format the floppies when it writes the image out to disk as well.<BR><BR>Also, have you tried booting to a floppy in your old laptop ...

We have it good now that USB is a thing, but I sometimes miss the old ways to transfer files ...