Why Zip disks and LS-120s couldn't defeat the 1.44MB disk ...
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 ...
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.
I own a pretty ancient Apple Mac 512e (with 68k cpu) which dates from 1985 or thereabouts, maybe older. It still works, but a lot of our games discs got corrupted, so I started downloading some off ...
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 ...