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.

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and Dropbox, it was the only viable way to store data portable. Where did they get ...

Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government. The announcement (Japanese, machine translated) last ...

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

Tokyo — With its azure ocean views and terraced rice paddies, the city of Hamada, population 50,000, is far from Japan's major urban centers of Tokyo and Osaka. But Hamada is no digital slouch. Just ...

Not too long ago, part of using a computer was often finding the correct disk for the application you wanted to run and inserting it into your machine before you could start. With modern storage, this ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. When I was a kid growing up in rural Yorkshire, one of the regular attractions at local fairs was a huge steam ...

GERMANY (WKRC) - Although you probably haven't used (or even seen) a floppy disk in a while, some systems still rely on the outdated technology to this day. They can't just remove the readers since ...

The history respecters at the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant/entertainment chain still use floppy disks to control their animatronic rodent-bots — and they wouldn’t have it any other way, apparently. As ...

Cool find! The combination of DVD and floppy disks initially seems bizarre, but if the system was introduced in 1998 it kind of makes sense. DVD had been out for about 2 years at that point, but there ...