I remember well, as I’ve written before, my family’s getting our first computer: a Commodore 64. When I was 17, ...

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive ...

Disc drives don't even exist as part of the internal hardware on most computers and laptops nowadays. In fact, by the ...

I deas man David Delahunty is behind a new flash storage device which looks like a classic MacOS folder icon dragged into the real world. This USB-C attached 128GB capacity storage product is called ...

Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers.

Things were different just a few years ago, and it's taken years of evolution to get gaming monitors, wireless keyboards, and other hardware we now take for granted.I looked back at my old desktop PC ...

This paper describes the development of a 3.5 inch floppy disk system. (Unformatted capacity : 437.5 K bytes/surface, Linear recording density :7610 bpi, Track ...

Last year PC case and peripheral maker Silverstone posted a picture of a retro-inspired computer chassis with a 1980s-inspired beige design, space for two 5.25 inch floppy drives, and a few modern ...

The first floppy drive in a Windows computer had the drive letter “A:” and the second the drive letter “B:”. When the first built-in hard disks arrived, Microsoft labeled them ...