The New York Public Library’s digital curator of performing arts Doug Reside has posted a useful guide to recovering old data from floppy discs. The New York Public Library’s digital curator of ...

Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless, many older applications or drivers may ...

The 1541 Disk Drive Computer project boots a Commodore 1541 like a KIM-1, letting you run Tiny BASIC and machine code over ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

Previously unknown Andy Warhol artwork, made on a 1985 Commodore Amiga computer, was recently extracted from obsolete floppy disks. The Andy Warhol Museum said in a statement released Thursday that a ...

Many government agencies, U.S. and international alike, have a reputation for sometimes using tools that are horribly out of date. But according to a report from a congressional watchdog agency, a ...

I have a problem with my floppy drive: anytime it tries to access a disk in Windows 2000 the entire system crashes (ie cursor freezes, floppy disk drive light is lit and the drive itself is making ...

A multidisciplinary group at Carnegie Mellon University has recovered three new digital images produced by Andy Warhol in 1985. The files were found on “Amiga floppy disks stored in the archives ...