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Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the ...

PRTG has a market valuation of around $12 million, and is only listed on a single exchange. The value stolen here would ...

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Scientists have found a way to store all of humanity's most important data inside a piece of glass — and it could last longer than civilisation itself. From floppy disks to USBs, keeping important ...

From floppy disks to USBs, keeping important historical or personal data safe is a constant technological challenge. But scientists have found a new storage solution that could last for more than ...

The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing schoolwork in a 90s computer lab, and, as it turns out, even some of today's ...

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Back in the day, when Windows 98 reigned supreme, we actually thought beige plastic was the right kind of material for all our PCs. And judging by my smudged-up black aluminum laptops, maybe we were ...

Famously, the save icon on most computer user interfaces references a fairly obsolete piece of technology: the venerable floppy disk. It’s likely that most people below the age of about 30 have never ...