Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has ...

A trove of previously unpublished works created by Andy Warhol on an Amiga desktop computer in 1985 have been retrieved from a series of floppy disks, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, announced ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and Dropbox, it was the only viable way to store data portable. Where did they get ...

ATLANTA – When Michael McCreary bought three new computers for his company, he had no need for one of the oldest and most common computer technologies, the floppy disk drive. But like many computer ...

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 ...

Many government agencies, U.S. and international alike, have a reputation for sometimes using tools that are horribly out of date. But according to a report from a congressional watchdog agency, a ...

The world of computer enthusiasts has over time generated many subcultures and fandoms, each of which has in turn spawned its own media. [Intric8] has shared the tale of his falling down a rabbit hole ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced ...

The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year. Sony, one of a ...

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...