There is a project in my future that involves writing files to a 5.25" floppy. I need recommendations for PCs that meet these requirements. I am looking at two options: 1) an old classic PC with an ...

I'll say this for Dixons Store Group, eponymous controllers of the high-street retail name and PC World superstores. It gets a lot of mileage out of dropping a product line. As it crossed first film ...

The guys working in the Apple Store have likely never seen a floppy before, nor have any training on what to do. for Mac formatted floppies, there are various types depending on how old they are. You ...

In historical personal computer terms, the 3.5-inch floppy disk has to be the most widely used storage medium in computer history. The plastic-covered magnetic film contained in floppy disks has been ...

Call the engine room and get Scotty to the bridge: When the long-lost words of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry were found on 5.25-inch floppies—yes, floppy disks—it would take a Starfleet-level ...

So you spent your youth learning your craft in front of an Amiga 500+, but a quarter century later all you have left is a broken computer and a pile of floppies you can’t read any more. What’s to be ...

You wouldn't think it would take more than two weeks to extract some source code from a pile of 3.5-inch floppies and post it online, but getting files from 1989 to play nice with a MacBook Air is no ...