Noble envisioned a compact and portable solution for storing data. This pioneering work, Project Minnow, led to the creation of the first commercially viable 8-inch floppy disk in 1971.

It used 3-inch compact floppy disks which could store 200 KB per side, at a maximum of nine programs. It measured 190(W) x 273(D) x 109(H) mm and weighed 4.5 kg. It was later followed by the MDR-10.

He got his patent for the camcorder in 1980. While the patent for compact discs was filed in the ‘60s, it wasn’t until 1982 that they hit the market. Stephen Wilhite invented something that we’ve used ...

That crisp, rich quality from a compact disc is something digital files can’t quite ... Dim the lights and immerse yourself in that nostalgic projection magic. Old floppy disks seem laughably low-tech ...

Floppy disks were first developed in the early 1970s as 8-inch (approximately 200 mm) disks, with smaller 5.25-inch (approximately 130 mm) disks appearing in 1976.

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

Many have sought the holy grail of making commercial media both readable and copy-proof, especially once everyone began to ...

So the majority of your CDs have probably been downsampled perilously from studio to disc. And streaming has now righted that ...

Restoration may include one or more of the following: Boot sector OEM name has been restored from modifications made by Windows 95/98 Creation and Last Accessed dates added by Windows have been ...

Many companies, especially smaller ones, outsourced their protection. I have seen byte-for-byte identical copy protection on disks from seven different companies! Even companies that wrote their own ...