Why the famous 'square hole' hack was a ticking time bomb ...

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

The floppy disk is headed for the basement of technology. It will have plenty of company down there in my own basement. I'll find it a nice seat next to my old Atari game system, the monochrome ...

In my pre-teen and teenage years, there were few things that made me happier than going on adventures to other worlds. I carried around the “portals” to those worlds in a clear plastic box full of ...

I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

I have a TEAC USB floppy drive. The closest I can get to an ID is "TEAC USB UF000x USB Device". The problem is that at times the drive will not correctly display the contents of the floppy disk. "dir ...

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...

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