Floppy disks, long dismissed as obsolete relics of the past, have unexpectedly returned to the Linux development spotlight. For the first time in nearly three years, a new patch has been submitted to ...

Pro Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system? Pro I journeyed into the web archive of an iconic consumer electronics ...

In Germany, floppy disks have long been written off. For prison inmates in New Jersey, they are still commonplace. Prison inmates in New Jersey have to rely on outdated word processing programs, ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

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Ancient technologies like Windows XP, Commodore 64, and legacy COBOL programs are still being used for all kinds of critical functions, and here’s another example to add to the list. The US Federal ...

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 ...

Greaseweazle is a hardware and software solution that lets you archive or regenerate old floppy disks. Reading them is useful for recovering old data or forgotten programs that you can use in your ...

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