If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you ...

Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics.

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course ... What awaits the brave hacker that picks up a box of random floppies and a dusty old drive at the local thrift ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...