When inserted into a computer's floppy disk drive, a metal slide door is opened to expose the inner magnetic circle to read the data. Once the preferred format for storing files and transferring ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...

The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable.

One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry ...

As e-book use has exploded since the pandemic, libraries nationwide have been feeling the effects of a marketplace with ...

Because there was so much piracy in the 1980s, some people assume that everything ever published has been cracked, digitized, and preserved in an emulator-friendly format. In reality, there are ...

Follow the Quick Disk connection and installation instructions ... of the FORMAT command fail to determine the correct number of sides on in a floppy image and hence format single sided, giving 720 ...

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.

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

[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 ...