The NTSB made the statement in its final report on the hull failure and implosion of the Titan submersible in June 2023.

Not too long ago, part of using a computer was often finding the correct disk for the application you wanted to run and ...

The Harold B. Lee Library is phasing out zip and floppy disk drives on most of its open-access computers, and library staff members are suggesting that patrons use other forms of media to save their ...

Iron oxide on the surface of the plastic may corrode material away, or it may lose its magnetism, preventing it from begin ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

Can I hook up a 3.5" floppy disk drive to a standard IDE port?<P>Or rather, does any company make a model that can?<P>The reason I ask is because my motherboard is broken and no combination of floppy ...

Does anyone know how I can get data off vintage 8" floppy disks. I have the disks and an external drive. I tried it on a 386 with no success. I suspect I will need to run it on an old 8088, but am not ...

Holding on to a cache of old floppies because nostalgia? Us too, and this might be the coolest possible use for ’em. While it’s fun to imagine that he wrote a compression algorithm to fit a lossless ...

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 ...