It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

Though the floppy disk was invented more than 50 years ago, it turns out airplanes continue to regularly use this archaic storage medium today.

Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago ...

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010, those who are still using this type of storage medium for production and/or retrocomputing purposes have to increasingly ...

I don’t mean “oh you can play old games on your phone”, everyone knows that. I mean playing old games using an actual floppy disk drive. This video by LGR shows how its done, using a phone’s USB port ...

[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 ...

Just built a new rig, here's the scenario.<br><br>New floppy drive is recognized by windows, looks fine by all software accounts. However, the read light stays on constantly, and won't acknowledge ...