In August 1984, my parents bought an Apple IIe for about $2,500, making them one of the first on the block to own a personal computer. Like me, Mom is also a writer, so she spent many an hour typing ...

In the 1990s, floppy disks were the medium of choice for home and business users alike to copy and store important data. Floppy disk use declined in the late 1990s thanks to the compact disc, and ...

Transfering the data stored on 3.5-inch floppy discs to new computers requires an external drive Credit: Photo: ALAMY When I started out on computers I used floppy discs for my backups. I have now ...

Floppy disks were once widely distributed as a recording medium for PCs, but with the advent of new recording media, floppy disks have long been regarded as outdated relics, but some companies and ...

If you have some old floppy disks lying around, then you may want to check out this fun DIY USB drive which was made using an old 3.5 inch floppy. This fun USB drive was made by Charles Mangin from , ...

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 ...