Its popularity lasted well into the 1990s, solidifying the floppy disk's position as a ubiquitous storage medium. This design started with 720KB of storage, but its most popular version held 1.44MB.

Floppy disks were first developed in the early 1970s as 8-inch (approximately 200 mm) disks, with smaller 5.25-inch (approximately 130 mm) disks appearing in 1976. Floppy disks then became most ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

Many have sought the holy grail of making commercial media both readable and copy-proof, especially once everyone began to ...

Restoration may include one or more of the following: Boot sector OEM name has been restored from modifications made by Windows 95/98 Creation and Last Accessed dates added by Windows have been ...

If you're excited by the PS5 Pro, you may now be looking to buy a PS5 Pro disc drive and purchase a PS5 vertical stand ahead of time to go with the premium console later this year. While PS5 Pro ...

What you don't get is an optical drive. If you want a disc drive, you'll have to purchase the Disc Drive for PS5 separately for an extra $79. Unfortunately, the Disc Drive for PS5 is starting to ...

Many companies, especially smaller ones, outsourced their protection. I have seen byte-for-byte identical copy protection on disks from seven different companies! Even companies that wrote their own ...

Physical games are still being sold, but with the current generation moving towards digital sales, the days of the disc drive are numbered. For PlayStation fans in particular, using a disc to run ...

This may sound like your average golf game, but it's not. It's disc golf. "It's just like ball golf," Nobles said, as he walked to collect his neon-green disc in the tall grass. Just like it ...

SEE: Use this software usage policy from TechRepublic Premium Unfortunately, retail hard disk imaging software, like Acronis Backup and Restore, may not be in everyone’s budget. When you don’t ...