About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

Some Android phones have microSD card slots, others don’t. But most have USB ports (with maybe one notable exception). That means you can plug in a USB flash drive if you can find one with a ...

When Michael McCreary bought three new computers for his company, he had no need for one of the oldest and most common computer technologies, the floppy drive. But like many computer customers, he ...

Floppy disks, long dismissed as obsolete relics of the past, have unexpectedly returned to the Linux development spotlight. For the first time in nearly three years, a new patch has been submitted to ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer being manufactured ...

My ASUSP5Q Pro Turbo mobo does not support an internal floppy disk drive. The manual states that under Windows XP, you need to use an external USB floppy drive to create the required Raid driver disk.