Pointless? Maybe, but count me in. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I'm sure this will be one for all of those who actually used ...

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks. These rare, and often ...

In context: If there's one thing YouTube has shown, it's that almost anything can be built by yourself at home if you have the time, skill, and required parts. Take, for example, polymatt, who managed ...

Things I will never attempt, item one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Reasons I am not an engineer: One, I have a limited supply ...

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 ...

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 ...

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we still ...

Through the looking glass: As the clock struck midnight on January 1, 1990, the world unknowingly stepped into a new chapter of digital threats. Few realized that the largest cybercrime investigation ...

When Taylor Smith talks about the future of her floppy disk paintings, she points to the boxes stored at her northeast-side studio. Together, they hold more than 50,000 of the square-shaped computer ...

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation Agency ...