After recently stumbling upon my old collection of floppy disks, I set out on a quest to access their data using modern ...

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 ...

When evolutionary biologist Joseph Popp coded the first documented piece of ransomware in 1989, he had little idea it would become a major criminal business model capable of bringing economies to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term floppy disk has persisted over the years, but the ones you've likely dealt with aren't floppy. So what does the name ...

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, ...

In brief: If you're old enough to know that floppy disks are more than just save icons, nostalgically recalling pulling down write-protect tabs, scribbling on the labels, and those storage boxes with ...

The golden-age rebirth of console gaming, largely spurred by the NES’s mega-success, has remained a lucrative era for conservationists. There’s a whole community out there rushing to find documents, ...