Before smartphones fit in our pockets and the cloud stored everything, there was the clunky, glorious world of ’80s tech. Today’s post is a nostalgic trip back to the era of giant monitors, cassette ...

We’ll never know what kind of art Andy Warhol might have been making in the Internet age, but now we can at least see what was on his floppy disks from 1985. A series of Warhol images from the ’80s ...

You can find a million old, oddball things you never expected to be preserved on the Internet Archive, and along the way stumble upon a million more you never knew existed. At present, I'm smitten ...

Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy ...

Throughout the history of computers, one aspect has plagued and restricted its growth more than any other: permanent storage. From the very first computers that used punched cards and tape for input ...

One of the greatest joys of being a technologist is that I get to see, often first-hand, some of humanity's most novel ideas. Case in point: One enterprising hacker has taken a TRS-80 -- one of the ...

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 ...