Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the ...

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An extraordinarily rare floppy disk — one of just 50 copies of Tsukihime Trial Edition ever produced — was allegedly destroyed coming through U.S. Customs.

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The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing schoolwork in a 90s computer lab, and, as it turns out, even some of today's ...

Famously, the save icon on most computer user interfaces references a fairly obsolete piece of technology: the venerable floppy disk. It’s likely that most people below the age of about 30 have never ...

Thimaya Subaiya is executive vice president of operations at Cisco, and he oversees security and trust, supply chain, IT, and growth operations at the networking giant. Subaiya is part of the inner ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...