These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You ...
A few years ago, small indie labels starting making their new releases available on cassette tape. In the age of digital downloads and streaming services, the chance to buy a physical, playable object ...
About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.
But seriously, how are so many industries still using magnetic disks, even now? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Way back in ...
I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...
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Developer turns floppy disks into secret black-and-white picture canvases — pbm2track paints pixel art into the disk's magnetic timing diagram
The pbm2track tool repurposes a floppy disk's track timing diagram into a secret tool for hiding pixel images.
eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The 3.5-inch floppy disk’s long, slow, unceremonious march ...
Andy Warhol, the pop artist of soup can and Brillo pad fame, is back in the news after a team of artists, computer experts, and museum professionals discovered a dozen new works by the artist that ...
What, wait? Sony’s been churning out floppy disks all these years? And 12m were sold last year in Japan alone? I guess that’s not enough though—as Sony Japan will cease selling them March 2011.
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