Two pilots managing software in an airplane cockpit - Rathke/Getty Images The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing ...

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has ...

A new software configuration management and distribution tool, Loadstar Server Enterprise 3 (LSE 3), has the potential to eliminate the use of floppy disks and other physical media still being used by ...

For garden variety daily computing tasks, the floppy disk has thankfully been a thing of the past for quite some time. Slow, limited in storage and easily corrupted, few yearn for the format to return ...

Are you afraid to fly? You might be a little less comfortable taking to the skies after learning that Boeing 747 airplanes still—as in right now, in the year 2020—receive critical navigation software ...

Those of us who've been around and using technology for a while remember the era of floppy disks. You know, they look like "save" icons, but they were real pieces of plastic with magnetic media inside ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

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. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

It’s been approximately 12 million years since most of us last used a floppy disk, but apparently, the antiquated tech still plays a critical role in delivering software updates to Boeing’s 747-400 ...