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I've never once touched a floppy disk with my bare hands. Yet, I somehow feel quite a bit of nostalgia for the old bit of ...
A PlayStation 3 Slim, once with a malfunctioning disc drive, undergoes a detailed restoration to bring it back to life. The ...
Hard disk errors can be checked and repaired by a built-in hard disk repair tool on a Windows PC; here’s how to run disk checking process on a Windows PC: Step 1.
Also, because floppy drives are already a thing of the past, Ultimate Boot CD can run floppy-based diagnostics from CD-ROM or USB drives at a higher speed. Wrapped in an interface similar to BIOS, the ...
The Afghanistan mission is now history. A new tender suggests that the country now has to be defended on drive A:. Because without floppy disks, the F123 class frigates are not going anywhere.
Japan finally gives up on 1.44MB floppy disk drives, 50 years after they went on sale — but there's no sign of Microsoft removing the iconic 'Save' floppy icon from Office just yet Craig Hale ...
A 'powerfully weird little niche' Although floppy disk music "peaked" in the 2010s, it's "still going strong" in the 2020s, said The Verge. In the 2020 category, online music release catalogue ...
David Silbey just contributed a link to a must-read interview with the guy who is singlehandedly keeping many of the world’s floppy disk-based systems going. In a September 2022 post in the AIGA Eye ...
The Register reports. Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government.
Pro Japan finally gives up on 1.44MB floppy disk drives, 50 years after they went on sale — but there's no sign of Microsoft removing the iconic 'Save' floppy icon from Office just yet News ...
After this calendar year, METI will no longer require businesses to submit data on floppy disks under 34 ordinances. The same goes for CD-ROMs when it comes to an unspecified number of procedures.