No matter what the size—eight-inch, 5 1/4-inch, 3 1/2-inch—floppy disks are the most iconic symbols of old-school computing. But how do they actually work? The 8-Bit Guy spends 15 minutes breaking ...

Iron oxide on the surface of the plastic may corrode material away, or it may lose its magnetism, preventing it from begin ...

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 ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

I can't remember when I last touched or even saw a floppy disk. Do you? Can we in truth say we knew the floppy disk was still alive that we might mourn its death now? The floppy disk had become an old ...

Those of us who've been around and using technology for a while remember the era of floppy disks. You know, they look like "save" icons, but they were real pieces of plastic with magnetic media inside ...

On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here?

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the ...

PITTSBURGH, April 24 (UPI) -- A new documentary, Trapped, chronicles the efforts of several artists to restore never-before-seen Andy Warhol works. Dozens of digital works have been discovered on ...