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 ...

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

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

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...

The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced successors, MS-DOS remains a pivotal piece of computer history. Released to ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Michael McCreary bought three new computers for his company, he had no need for one of the oldest and most common computer ...

If you change your computer regularly, your present computer probably does not have a floppy disk drive. The 3.5-inch floppy disk was a ubiquitous medium used for storing data a couple of decades ago.

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 ...

Dell Computer is offering its own alternative to the floppy disk. The company on Tuesday began offering the USB Memory Key, a small, removable storage device. Dell will offer a 16MB version of the USB ...