Building a modern PC to read decades-old floppy disks turns into a quirky retrocomputing challenge with uncertain odds.

I'm sure this will be one for all of those who actually used floppy disks back in the day—a veritable nostalgia hit—but it's also for people like me who just about missed that era of computing. I ...

The other day, as I was doing some spring-cleaning, I stumbled upon something I forgot I even owned: a plastic tote filled with old 3.5-inch floppy disks from the nineties. With fascination, I sifted ...

Floppy disks are several decades old—many of the disks are degrading and the data stored on them is at risk of being lost. In response, Leontien Talboom, a technical analyst at Cambridge University ...

A forum post by New Zealand electronics enthusiast [zl2wrw] about retreiving waypoints from a mysterious floppy disk caught our eye. The navigation system on his friend’s fishing boat had died and was ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city’s Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt the train control system it currently uses, which has ...