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 ...

OK, I am working with a distro called Blueflops, to run on my 2 old old laptops. It runs on 2 floppies. I am using MEPIS linux right now. So it comes with an automatic installer to make the floppies ...

hey all,<br><br> i am ridding myself of floppy drives forever. since i still run win9x [stop the laughing -- View image here: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/infopop ...

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 ...

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.

Floppy disks have been widely used as magnetic disks for personal computers since around 1980, and were used as recording media until optical disk drives such as CDs and DVDs became the standard in ...

Back in 1990 [Benjamin Zotto] wrote – while in elementary school – a dog racing game called Wonderland 2. The BASIC source code and images for the game were stored on a single ProDOS formatted, ...

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 ...

Are you afraid to fly? You might be a little less comfortable taking to the skies after learning that Boeing 747 airplanes still—as in right now, in the year 2020—receive critical navigation software ...