Floppy disks are rapidly aging, and archivists are working hard to preserve what data is left. This has led to the development of advanced floppy controllers capable of capturing the raw flux data ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

OK, I am working with a distro called Blueflops, to run on my 2 old old laptops. It runs on 2 floppies. I am using MEPIS linux right now. So it comes with an automatic installer to make the floppies ...

I did a search of the forums for this, so I'm posting it...<P>It sure seems like floppy disks are a lot less reliable than 10 yrs ago. Maybe its my just memory that's less reliable.<P>Is there a way ...

Despite being obsolete in modern computing, the 3.5-inch floppy disk lives on globally as the universal "Save" icon in almost ...

Check out this combo gadget which combines a 7 in 1 memory card reader and a floppy disk drive. Now, I don’t know if any of you still use a floppy drive; I haven’t used one for years, but it might be ...

Floppy disks are recording media in which magnetically coated or vapor-deposited disks are placed in a protective case, but they are rarely used in modern times when HDDs and SSDs are widespread. A ...