The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, operating as ...

If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...

The G4 iMac is one of the more popular computers in the restomodding scene given its charm and unparalleled ergonomics. Most modern machines that people squeeze in don’t have a disc drive anymore ...

Optical drives were once so common that virtually every computer came with one, or even two. Now this storage solution is quickly becoming obsolete — it's increasingly rare to find a mainstream ...

In 1978, Hewlett-Packard Corporation introduced a relatively compact, "easy-to-use, high-performance business computer," sold as the HP 250. Its exterior was ergonomically designed to fit into an ...

How do I format a hard drive? A computer hard drive stores your files, allowing you to access them at any time. The majority of the time, you want these files to remain stored properly and safely.