In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

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 Prison inmates in New Jersey have to rely on outdated word processing programs, ...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 ...

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 ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics. US air traffic control systems are to get ...

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 ...

Passengers at Newark Liberty International Airport are facing a mess with hours-long delays and flight cancellations due to equipment outages and a severe air traffic controller shortage. As the ...