The term floppy disk has persisted over the years, but the ones you've likely dealt with aren't floppy. So what does the name ...

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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 ...

Q: I bought a Macintosh Performa 636 in 1994, and I have kept using it without upgrades. I never connected it to the Internet, and have relied on a printer to make paper copies of about 1,400 poems ...

After recently stumbling upon my old collection of floppy disks, I set out on a quest to access their data using modern ...

We no longer use floppy disks on the vast majority of computers, but a recent Old New Thing blog post from Microsoft sheds light on one of their possible unexpected legacies. It seems Windows disk ...

Call the engine room and get Scotty to the bridge: When the long-lost words of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry were found on 5.25-inch floppies—yes, floppy disks—it would take a Starfleet-level ...

Through the looking glass: Do you remember floppy disks? The archaic storage device used to ruled computers of the 1980s and 1990s, but a good number of you reading this may have never seen or used ...

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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 ...