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 ...

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 ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

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 ...

Are you old enough to remember using floppy disks? Do they fill you with nostalgia? But I bet that nine times out of ten, you think of them as something to be used with a PC. After all, that's where ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

While the floppy disk is a thing of the past, even today some Windows PC users may occasionally use it for accessing older files on the drive. One of the common ...