Back in 1990 [Benjamin Zotto] wrote – while in elementary school – a dog racing game called Wonderland 2. The BASIC source code and images for the game were stored on a single ProDOS formatted, ...

HamsterOS fits on just a single 1.44 MB floppy disk, and it's set for a full release this November.

I have 3 bootable floppies I want to transfer to a file. All three are the same Spinrite program, but I don't have time to play with them at the moment. I have a portable floppy drive I borrowed, and ...

Working with an older Pavilion HP Laptop (XF328). The standard configuration did not come with a floppy. So how does HP want you to upgrade the bios, heh yep, by a floppy. So I ran the exe program to ...

These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You ...

Floppy disks are several decades old—many of the disks are degrading and the data stored on them is at risk of being lost. In response, Leontien Talboom, a technical analyst at Cambridge University ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Floppy disks -- who needs 'em? They're not practical for storing digital photos, MP3 compressed music files or any of the other accoutrements of the digital lifestyle. They don't ...

The big picture: Thanks to ongoing problems in the microchip supply chain, PC hardware has become prohibitively expensive for many enthusiasts. Game developers may eventually have to adapt to this new ...

The New South Wales Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) Policy for the Backup of CADD Data highlights the importance of data backup, noting that data stored on computers can be lost or damaged due to ...