A forum post by New Zealand electronics enthusiast [zl2wrw] about retreiving waypoints from a mysterious floppy disk caught our eye. The navigation system on his friend’s fishing boat had died and was ...

This is the LAST thing i ever expected to have problems with on a new system. I'm putting together a cheap 700mhz system (Win2k) for a friend of mine to be used for net surfing, email, word processing ...

I have an old dual pentium pro machine, when i put it together i couldn't get it to boot from a floppy no matter what i did in the bios or what floppy disk i used. i tried 3 different floppy drives ...

Q: I have a desktop computer running Windows 8.1. My problem has been I do not feel as if this computer or any computer that is running this OS is secure because every time the computer is turned on, ...

Floppy disks may be obsolete, but they still hold irreplaceable pieces of our digital past. Archivists and retro tech enthusiasts are teaming up to recover their fragile data before it’s lost forever.

In need of a floppy controller for a 286 he was working on, [Gadget Reboot] took to GitHub to see what was available in the open hardware space. There he found an ISA board capable of controlling up ...