If your PC is truly broken, SystemRescue is often the first and last tool you need. It’s designed from the ground up for ...

Anyone who uses certain older Radeon graphics cards from AMD can be happy. Because Linux 6.19 brings up to 30 percent more performance for hardware that is sometimes up to 13 years old by changing the ...

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...

Basilisk II currently requires disk images (.img/.dsk) for floppy emulation, but does not support direct access to USB floppy drives. Adding native USB floppy support would allow users to: Insert and ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

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Ancient technologies like Windows XP, Commodore 64, and legacy COBOL programs are still being used for all kinds of critical functions, and here’s another example to add to the list. The US Federal ...