If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30 ... it was more akin to jamming a laserdisc or record into your computer for writing data. Mechanically, they operate similarly to audio tapes.

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...

Still, Linus’ quiet announcement comes as a minor jolt to anyone of A Certain Age for whom the floppy disk and the computer were once inseparable. When your digital life resided not in your ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

The attack, masterminded by American biologist Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., arrived via a seemingly innocuous 5.25-inch floppy disk labeled ... awareness of computer viruses was minimal ...

Nothing to do with "strings of text" or "string theory," a Stringy Floppy was a magnetic tape drive for the Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computer ... before the floppy disk made them obsolete.

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 ...