[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 these ...
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I tried using a floppy drive for the first time in 25 years. Here's the weirdest quirks I forgot about
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You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer being manufactured ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen Zers try to make sense of the floppy disk. As technology continues to advance at an exponential rate, it can be tough to keep ...
When was the last time that you used a floppy disk? While still used as the save icon in modern software packages like Microsoft’s Office suite, it’s unusual to see one out in the wild. Given that a ...
This is one of those situations where I take a second to think about how I got here. As part of my job at XDA, I buy a lot of cables for various things, whether it's an extra USB 3.1 cord or a few ...
An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still used in the medical and airline industries. When I was little, it was rare for people to ...
OK, HPQ is still partly resposible for this rant but here goes.... So I have some brand-new Proliant DL145's in house (Dual Opteron 1U server). When I bought them, I failed to notice that not only do ...
Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...
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 ...
A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...
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