Why Zip disks and LS-120s couldn't defeat the 1.44MB disk ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced ...
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It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.
RETRO-TASTIC It's been close to fifteen years since the last new floppy disk was manufactured by Sony. That's a long time by any standard, and it's especially lengthy in the ever-advancing tech world.
The floppy disk, already abandoned by most computer users, has been pushed closer to extinction by a Sony decision to end manufacturing of the storage media this early next year. Sony, one of a ...