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No matter what the size—eight-inch, 5 1/4-inch, 3 1/2-inch—floppy disks are the most iconic symbols of old-school computing. But how do they actually work? The 8-Bit Guy spends 15 minutes breaking ...
Q: I'm a doctor who was a medical missionary in Madagascar for 40 years, and the time has come for me to write my memoirs. But to do that I need access to my old e-mails and correspondence that were ...
I can't remember when I last touched or even saw a floppy disk. Do you? Can we in truth say we knew the floppy disk was still alive that we might mourn its death now? The floppy disk had become an old ...
Those of us who've been around and using technology for a while remember the era of floppy disks. You know, they look like "save" icons, but they were real pieces of plastic with magnetic media inside ...
*Well, it's not "long live floppy disks," because they are not going to live. The clock is ticking for all of them, and they weren't built to last. *The aspect of their personalness and uniqueness is ...
A collection of Warhol works were uncovered in March on a set of old Amiga floppy disks, according to a press release by the Studio for Creative Inquiry (via BoingBoing). The files were eased off of ...
PITTSBURGH, April 24 (UPI) -- A new documentary, Trapped, chronicles the efforts of several artists to restore never-before-seen Andy Warhol works. Dozens of digital works have been discovered on ...