Why the famous 'square hole' hack was a ticking time bomb ...

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has ...

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.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced ...

Japan may well be a leader in innovation and technology, but this week a prominent government figure revealed how it sometimes likes to hold on to old technologies, too. Days after taking up his role ...

Digital Minister declares a war on floppy discs. There are about 1900 government procedures that requires business community to use discs, i. e. floppy disc, CD, MD, etc to submit applications and ...

What just happened? It's been close to 15 years since Sony made the very last new floppy disk, many years after the height of their popularity, but it's only now that Japan has finally managed to ...

Ah, the old floppy disk. Sure, its paltry 1.14MB of storage doesn't amount to all that much these days, but they still hold a place in a lot of people's hearts who remember transporting their precious ...