Dell Computer said Wednesday it will stop putting the drives in its desktop computers next month and offer them only as an option. Newer storage devices can hold far more data, at a competitive price, ...

In the early 1990s, Don’t Copy That Floppy was an anti-piracy campaign that attempted to connect with computer-savvy youth ...

Not too long ago, part of using a computer was often finding the correct disk for the application you wanted to run and inserting it into your machine before you could start. With modern storage, this ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

Back in the day, when Windows 98 reigned supreme, we actually thought beige plastic was the right kind of material for all our PCs. And judging by my smudged-up black aluminum laptops, maybe we were ...

In a nutshell: Ken Shirriff is an IC reverse engineering enthusiast who enjoys restoring vintage computers and devices. While repairing an 8-inch HP floppy drive, the computer historian discovered an ...

I just build a nice Athlon64 system for a client, and he wanted to add in his old 5.25" floppy drive. I figured it would be no problem, so I installed it. However, I could not get it to work. Do ...