The 8-inch floppy disk is to computers what the hand crank starter is to automobiles—a relic of the past, existing in museums, black-and-white photos and maybe your grandfather’s basement. They’re the ...

While even children are on the fast track of the digital revolution, there’s one extremely important corner of the U.S. that’s stuck somewhere in the 1970s — the U.S. Department of Defense. A new ...

Does anyone know how I can get data off vintage 8" floppy disks. I have the disks and an external drive. I tried it on a 386 with no success. I suspect I will need to run it on an old 8088, but am not ...

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a startling report on the state of the government's information technology infrastructure on Wednesday. According to the report, the ...

In an ode to obsolete technology, Anand Jain uses floppy disk drives to create a variation on the popular theme from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters. This video is one of a four-part series featuring ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Its happening: 3.5-inch floppy disk drives are ...

We have featured a number of different themes being played by floppy drives here on Geeky Gadgets over the years, such as the Star Wars Imperial March also played by a selection of floppy disk drives.