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 ...

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 ...

What, wait? Sony’s been churning out floppy disks all these years? And 12m were sold last year in Japan alone? I guess that’s not enough though—as Sony Japan will cease selling them March 2011.

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.

I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

A few years ago, small indie labels starting making their new releases available on cassette tape. In the age of digital downloads and streaming services, the chance to buy a physical, playable object ...

RETRO-TASTIC It's been close to fifteen years since the last new floppy disk was manufactured by Sony. That's a long time by any standard, and it's especially lengthy in the ever-advancing tech world.

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its plastic ...

Back in the late 1980s, using a computer required a lot of patience. In a time before cloud storage, fast internet, and multi ...