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 ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...

The floppy disk is headed for the basement of technology. It will have plenty of company down there in my own basement. I'll find it a nice seat next to my old Atari game system, the monochrome ...

Remember when 3.5" floppy disks and game cartridges were the bane of our youthful existence? That wonderful sound the spring-loaded metal slide used to make almost made the paltry 1.44 megabytes of ...