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 ...

It's in one of the first menus of the BIOS setup, usually like <B>Floppy Drive A: 1.44 MB 3.5"</B>. Basically make sure you don't have it set for B: instead of A:, and in another menu there should be ...

I spend a lot of time on planes (maybe too much – see last post). On a flight a couple of years ago I sat next to a guy and our conversation quickly turned to IT. Apparently he’d been hired as a ...

[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 ...

WTF?! Joining the list of organizations still using archaic technology is the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which has a train control system still reliant on floppy disks.

Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago ...