PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course ... unless you happen to have a 1990s vintage computer laying around, getting these drives hooked up is decidedly ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

MainFrames launches today. Play as a floppy disk and traverse a computer screen in this creative indie 2D platformer.

60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to ...

The sound of a crunching floppy disk drive may well be the soundtrack ... while the US nuclear arsenal relied on a floppy drive-based computer system up until 2019. While planes in the air and ...