The Floppy Disk is Not Dead

Apr 28, 2010 | 13 Comments

It’s easy to spot a computer user of a certain age. Anybody who grew up using PCs in the ’80s or early ’90s will usually have one tell-tale-sign: an over-developed wrist reflex brought on from years of floppy disk swapping! The news that Sony was finally ceasing production of 3.5” floppy disks has saddened a [...]

Don’t Copy That Floppy?

Oct 10, 2007 | 3 Comments

A digital friend who goes by the handle “alpha” uncovered a relatively obscure, but potentially useful, utility for Windows folks with software that’s stuck in the ’90s: I don’t know about you, but in this day and age I hate it when a driver or a program demands to use your floppy drive in order [...]