This is one of those situations where I take a second to think about how I got here. As part of my job at XDA, I buy a lot of cables for various things, whether it's an extra USB 3.1 cord or a few ...

When you think of archives, you probably think of dusty old boxes of paper documents, photos, diaries, letters and flyers, ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of these ...

Just built a new rig, here's the scenario. New floppy drive is recognized by windows, looks fine by all software accounts. However, the read light stays on constantly, and won't acknowledge that a ...

If you’re a big retro tech fan, you might still have a floppy drive on hand, or even some sort of high-end disk imaging solution. If you’re a little less committed, you may still have ...

The humble floppy disk — which, despite appearances, is rather aptly named — ruled the world of removable storage for decades. IBM began developing the technology in 1967, and the last floppy ...