I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

It's in one of the first menus of the BIOS setup, usually like <B>Floppy Drive A: 1.44 MB 3.5"</B>. Basically make sure you don't have it set for B: instead of A:, and in another menu there should be ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of these ...

I spend a lot of time on planes (maybe too much – see last post). On a flight a couple of years ago I sat next to a guy and our conversation quickly turned to IT. Apparently he’d been hired as a ...

WTF?! Joining the list of organizations still using archaic technology is the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which has a train control system still reliant on floppy disks.