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 ...

I own a pretty ancient Apple Mac 512e (with 68k cpu) which dates from 1985 or thereabouts, maybe older. It still works, but a lot of our games discs got corrupted, so I started downloading some off ...

The floppy disk is a technology that is known only to the youth of today as the inspiration for the Save icon. There’s a lot of retro computing history tied up in these fragile platters, thus ...

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.

Why Zip disks and LS-120s couldn't defeat the 1.44MB disk ...

In 1985, Andy Warhol experimented with digital art on an Amiga computer for a Commodore International commission. Nearly 30 ...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. As proprietary, non-standardized formats go, Iomega’s Zip drive got a heck of a ...

Floppy disks are an undeniably antiquated technology by 2026 standards, but they're a charming window into the pre-mobile era of personal computing. Even if there's technically nothing out of the ...